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weighing sixty-one and a half pounds per bushel. The land 

 had lain in grass six or eight years, without manure. Soil 

 heavy loam. I cut a crop of grass the first week in July, and 

 in the second week in August, ploughed the land, the after 

 crop then being five or six inches high, which I ploughed in. 

 About the first of September, I harrowed the land, first length- 

 Avise of the furrows, then crosswise, making the ground mellow 

 and fine. Middle of September, I spread on the land six loads 

 of compost manure, sowed on two bushels good seed, first 

 soaking the seed twelve hours in brine, and then rubbing it in 

 lime, I ploughed all in together with a one horse plough, being 

 careful not to disturb the old sod. After the seed was well up 

 I sowed on two bushels plaster Paris and ten bushels wood 

 ashes. 



VALUE OF CROP. 



35 bushels seed wheat, at $1 50 . 

 Straw, ..... 



Total, . 



$52 50 

 10 00 



$62 50 



EXPENSES. 



Ploughing land, . 



Harrowing, 



Six loads compost. 



Two bushels seed wheat, salt and lime, 



Sowing seed and ploughing 



Plaster and ashes. 



Harvesting, 



Threshinj 





n, 



Net proceeds, 

 Westfield, Nov. 1850. 



$20 60 

 $41 90 



