RECLAIMED SWAMPS. 



183 



Receipts : — 

 By 4|- tons of hay per year for 5 years, 22|- tons, at $8 



per ton, standing, $180 00 



Deduct expenses, 132 00 



Leaving a profit of, ... . $48 00 



Yon will see by the al)ove figures that this piece has paid 

 about 40 per cent, on the amount invested, and about $12 per 

 acre per annum. All of which we submit. 



SiiELBURXE, November 20, 1857. 



E. E. Robinson's Statement. 



The land to which I would invite your attention consists of 

 one acre of reclaimed bog meadow. At the time I commenced 

 on it, it was so soft as not to allow a team to go on it, the muck 

 being very deep, full of logs, stumps and bogs. There grew on 

 it a few hundred of coarse sedge grass which hardly paid for cut- 

 ting. After taking out the logs and stumps and bogging it over, 

 I drew on to it 250 loads of sand. Commenced putting it at the 

 outer edge of it and so on, till it was covered over. I ploughed 

 it the fall of 1854, and planted it to corn, and seeded it down to 

 grass in 1855, and mowed it in 1856 and in 1857. The expense 

 and profit are as follows. 



Expenses : — 

 Digging up the stumps and logs, 

 Bogging it and clearing same off, 

 Drawing 250 loads of sand, 

 Ploughing it, . 



10 loads manure and drawing 10 loads sai 

 Harrowing it, . 

 Planting and hoeing, 

 1 peck Timothy and 1 bushel redtop. 

 Harvesting the corn crop, . 

 Cutting the grass and getting the hay, 



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