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to the official reports of the patent office, has furnished, through 

 the columns of the New England Farmer, a table of the crops, 

 prices, and cost of cultivation, the results of an average for 

 ten years, from 1840 to 1850 inclusive, and from which we 

 copy the following on the wheat crop : 



Massachusetts, average 18 bushels per acre, 



$1 34 per bushel, - - - $24 12 



Value of straw, - - - 5 00 



$29 12 



Cost of cultivation, interest on land included, - 18 00 



New Hampshire, average 20 bushels per 



acre, $1 34 per bushel, - - $26 80 



Value of straw, - - - 5 00 



111 12 



$31 SO 



Cost of cultivation, interest on land included, - 22 00 



Vermont, average 20 bushels per acre, 



$1 34 per bushel, - - - $26 80 



Value of straw, - - - 4 00 



$9 80 



$30 80 



Cost of cultivation, interest on land included, - 20 00 



Ohio, average 20 bushels per acre, 78 cents 



per bushel, - - - - $15 60 



Value of straw, - - - 3 00 



$10 80 



$18 60 

 Cost of cultivation, interest on land included, - 8 00 



Indiana, average 20 bushels per acre, 75 



cents per bushel, - - - $15 00 



Value of straw, - . - 1 00 



$10 60 



Cost of cultivation, interest on land included, 

 Illinois gives precisely the same results as the above, 



