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fodder will be worth two dollars more than the expense of har- 

 vesting and other trouble about it. Whole expense for planting, 

 hoeing, &c, $20 64; 30 loads compost manure, $15 00; 60 

 bushels of ashes, $6 00; carting, $1 00; use of land, $6 00. 

 Total, $48 64. Deduct, for benefit of manure to the land for 

 the next crops, one third the cost, $7 33 ; corn fodder, $2 00. 

 Total, $9 33 ; making the corn to cost me within a fraction of 

 44 cents to the bushel. 



Middleborough, Oct. 23, 1847. 



Daniel Alden's Statement. 



The land on which I raised the crop of oats, entered for pre- 

 mium, is a sandy loam; in 1845, it was grass; in October of 

 that year, it was ploughed ; in the spring of 1846, carted on 30 

 loads of compost manure, and sowed three bushels of salt ; cross- 

 ploughed with a light furrow, not disturbing the sod, and plant- 

 ed to corn ; likewise put on 15 bushels of ashes around the corn. 

 Last April, ploughed the ground, and, on the 22d, sowed two and 

 a half bushels of oats to the acre, after soaking them and rolling 

 them in ashes. I also sowed on three bushels of salt, and put 

 the oats in with a cultivator, sowed grass-seed, and rolled the 

 field. I had 69| bushels on one acre and nine rods, as stated 

 above, weighing twenty-nine pounds per bushel. 



To oats, 2 1 bushels, $1 25 ; 3 bushels of salt, $1 50 ; plough- 

 ing, $1 50; cultivating and harrowing, $1 50; sowing grain and 

 salt, 50 cents; cutting oats, 75 cents; threshing and cleaning up 

 oats, $4 25 ; raking, binding and carting, $1 75. Total, $13 00. 



By 1| ton straw, at $6 per ton, $9 00; 69 J bushels of oats, 

 at 50 cents per bushel, $34 75. Total, $43 75. 



N. Mlddleborough, Oct. 8, 1847. 



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