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which it has been harvested, and the yield was three hundred 

 and fifty bushels, or seventy bushels per acre. 

 At seventy-five cents per bushel, amounts to $262 50 

 Twelve tons of fodder, - - - 72 00 



Expenses for 

 Ploughing, 

 Harrowing, 



Thirty cords of manure, - 

 Carting and spreading, 

 Covering with light plough, 

 Planting and hoeing, 

 Cutting and stacking, 

 Harvesting, 



Threshing and marketing. 

 Land rent. 



$334 60 



203 50 



Net gain, - - - - $131 00 



My practice, for twenty years past, in cultivating my meadow 

 land, has been a five years rotation, as follows : first corn, sec- 

 ond wheat, and three years in grass, and my experience and 

 success still warrant a continuance in this system. 



Walter Coolei/s Statement. 

 The corn crop which I offer for premium was raised on one 

 acre of land which had been in grass for the past five years, 

 and been mowed annually without receiving any manure ; last 

 spring five cords of stable manure was carted and spread upon 

 the turf and turned under by the plough ; the land was then 

 harrowed and planted in hills three feet apart each way ; the 

 cultivator was used at the first and second hoeing and a light 

 plough for the third. The corn was ashed in the hill. I liave 

 harvested one hundred and sixty-five bushels of ears, equal to 

 eighty-two and a half bushels shelled. 



Value of crop, at 75 cents per bushel, $61 87 



