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appeared that the grass-seed had taken much better with the 

 barley than with the oats, and this difference was quite apparent 

 up to the present season. The seed took with the oats, how- 

 ever, as well as it usually takes upon the uplands. During the 

 fall of 1866, 1 cleaned out the ditches which had been filled up 

 by constant washing from above with a mixture of sand, ashes 

 and peat, which I considered worth more than enough to pay 

 for throwing it out and carting it away. In the spring of 1867, 

 I sowed three bushels of plaster and two bushels of salt upon 

 this lot, and this is all the fertilizing it has received. The crop 

 this season was two tons of good English hay, which I cut 

 August 1st, mowing and raking with horses. 



EXPENSES. 



1864. One acre of land. 

 One-half cost of 40 rods ditch, 



1865. Harrowing and furrowing, . 

 Six bushels seed potatoes, . 

 Two days planting. 

 One day hoeing, . 

 Two days digging potatoes, . 

 Three days with team ploughing. 

 Three days burning at 11.50, 



1866. Carting 125 loads sand at 20 cents, 

 One harrowing and bushing. 

 Two bushels seed oats, . 

 One bushel barley. 

 Grass seed and sowing. 

 Three days getting hay, 



1867. Plaster and salt, . 

 Applying the above, . . . 

 Three days getting hay. 



Interest and taxes, .... 



PROFITS. 



1865. Sixty bushel potatoes at 70 cents, 



1866. Two tons green fodder, 



1867. Two tons good hay. 

 One acre of land. 



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