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I ploughed in about five cords of barn yard manure, valued at 

 two dollars per cord, and planted with corn. Last April I 

 ploughed once, and sowed on three bushels of oats and har- 

 rowed them in ; I have this day measured them, and there is 

 eighty-five bushels and a half, weighing 2,821 pounds. 

 Value of crop, at 45 cents per bushel, 

 Straw, ----- 



Expenses for 



Ploughing, _ , _ - 



Sowing and harrowing, - - - 



Three bushels of seed, - - - 



Harvesting, _ - _ . 



Threshing and cleaning, - - 



Land rent, . _ . - 



13 00 



Net gain, - - - - $30 47 



J. H. Demond's Statement. 



The crop of oats which I present for premium was the pro- 

 duct of one acre and a half of land, which, in 1850, was 

 planted with broom-corn ; the land was prepared for this crop 

 by ploughing under twenty loads of compost manure, about 

 twenty-five bushels per load, the soil a fine, mellow, sandy 

 loam — was then planted. The result of this crop v/as eight hun- 

 dred pounds of broom-brush and eighty bushels of seed, per 

 acre. Early in the spring of 1851, the stalks were cut and 

 burned on the ground, the land was then ploughed, and the oats 

 sowed upon the furrows, then harrowed and rolled. The pro- 

 duct was eighty-two bushels, weighing thirty-four pounds per 

 bushel, being fifty-five bushels per acre. 



Value of crop, at forty-five cents per bushel, $36 90 

 Two tons of straw, - - - - 12 00 



$48 90 



Expenses for 

 Ploughing, $2 25 



