OATS. 



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Jul)^, and in August it was threshed by hand, producing twenty- 

 five bushels on one acre and seventeen rods. 



Expenses: — • 

 Super-phosphate of lime and plaster, 

 Three bushels barley, . 

 Ploughing, . 

 Sowing and harrowing, 

 Cutting and getting in, 

 Threshing and cleaning. 

 Interest on land. 



Income : — 



Twenty-five bushels barley, at 75 cents. 

 One ton straw, ..... 



$21 50 



27 25 



$5 75 



I think that the crop was injured from thirty to forty per cent., 

 by the dry weather, which occurred at the most critical period 

 of it; 



growth. 



OATS. 



Statement of George W. Wood. 



The acre of land I raised my oats on, is a clayey loam, and 

 it is the same on which I raised my corn last year. I managed 

 as follows : — 



April 29th, ploughed ; May 2d, sowed the oats, (three bushels 

 and three pecks) ; the wind blowing, it took more oats than I 

 expected, but I do not thin'c it any loss. 



After ploughing, I harrowed, then sowed the oats ; went 

 over with the cultivator, and harrowed again, till the soil was 

 very fine ; I then bush-harrowed it twice. I have found by ex- 

 perience, that working the soil is of great advantage for spring 

 grain. I cut the oats the 25th of July, and threshed them 



