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After harvesting the corn the land was ploughed, and eight or 

 ten ordinary loads of manure (summer made, in the cattle 

 yard,) and four hundred bushels of leached ashes were spread 

 upon the furrows and harrowed well ; twelve bushels of seed 

 was sown and the land again harrowed ; the wheat was har- 

 vested in July past, and when threshed and cleaned gave me 

 two hundred and twenty-three bushels of beautiful grain. It 

 was sold for one dollar ten cents per bushel, 



Amounting to - - - - $245 30 



Straw, - - - - - 45 00 



|290 30 



Expenses for 



Ploughing, - - - - $9 37 



Ashes and manure, - - - 35 00 



Harrowing twice, - - - - 4 00 



Seed, - - - - - 18 00 



Harvesting, - - - - 9 37 



Threshing and cleaning, - - - 9 00 



Land rent, - - - - 75 00 



159 74 



Net gain, - - - - - - $130 56 



Walter Cooley^s Statement. 

 I present you a statement of my wheat crop which was 

 raised on one acre of land. The lot was in corn last year, for 

 which I received the first premium of the society. After the 

 corn crop was harvested, the land was ploughed, and the seed 

 sowed the first week in October, two bushels to the acre and 

 harrowed in. The crop was harvested in July, and the pro- 

 duct was thirty-eight bushels, weighing sixty-three pounds per 

 bushel. It sold for one dollar ten cents per bushel. 



Amounting to - - - - $41 80 



Two tons of straw, - - - 12 00 



$53 80 



Expenses for 

 Ploughing, seed and harrowing, - - $6 50 



