RECLAIMED MEADOWS. 



65 



top, and five pounds of clover to tlie acre, and mixed in a little 

 turnip seed. I cut my corn September 18th, and liusked about 

 the middle of October, one hundred and fifty-seven bushels of 

 good ears of corn, on one acre, and about three tons of corn- 

 fodder. The weight of the fodder was obtained by weighing 

 one stack, and multiplying it by the number of stacks. I finish- 

 ed pulling my turnips the 20th of November, and had one 

 hundred and twenty-five bushels on one acre. In July last I 

 cut a fair crop of good hay, estimated by competent judges at 

 two tons to the acre. I think I should have had a greater 

 crop, had the season been favorable. The muck was dry 

 enough to burn well a long time before the grass was cut. The 

 land is now in good condition. The grass thickens so well, 

 that I expect a heavier crop of hay next season. I have com- 

 puted the expense of reclaiming one acre from its condition — 

 in August, 1851 — when it was drained and the stumps removed. 



Produce : — 



78 bushels corn, at 831 cents, . . . $65 00 

 3 tons corn fodder, at $6, . . . . 18 00 

 125 bushels turnips, at 12-1- cents, . . 15 62 

 2 tons hay, at $7 per ton, . . . . 14 00 



-$112 62 



Expenses : — 

 Bogging and moving bogs, . 

 Draining, .... 

 Ploughing and harrowing, . 

 Manures, compost and ashes. 

 Planting and hoeing three times. 

 Grass seed. 

 Corn, 



Turnips, . 

 Hay seed, . 



43 00 



Net gain on one acre, 



$69 62 



To this might be added the value of the land, or nearly so, 

 for before I commenced in August, 1851, there was no net in- 

 crease from it — the bog hay barely paid the labor of getting it. 

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