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Sussex cow : l "a cow not of either of the highest 

 improved English breeds long horns or short 

 horns ; but of the proper old Sussex breed." The 

 following record is of her production in five suc- 

 cessive years beginning in 1805. I have tran- 

 sposed quarts to pounds by the use of the factor 

 given above : 



Facts of the same sort are at hand for crops. 

 Justin Ely, Esq., of West Springfield, Mass., in 

 1816, raised 50 bushels of wheat to the acre. Colo- 

 nel James Valentine, of Hopkinton, raised 128 

 bushels of ."Indian corn" to the acre. Pay son Wil- 

 liams, Esq., of Fitchburg, raised 614 bushels of pota- 

 toes to the acre, and James Whitton, Esq., of Lee, 

 raised 85 bushels of oats to the acre. The average 

 yield of oats to-day is approximately 36 bushels to 

 the acre. The Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, in its tests of the best commercial varie- 

 ties of oats procurable in this country and Europe, 



1 Massachusetts Agricultural Repository and Journal, Vol. IV, 

 No. 4. Cf. also New England Farmer, Vol. Ill, p. 305, 1825. 



