OATS. 



219 



Ploughing the acre, 

 Seven cords of manure, 

 Drawing on and spreading manure, 

 Sowing, harrowing and rolling. 

 Three bushels of barley, 



Harvesting, 



Threshing, winnowing and weighing, 



Credit by 38 bushels of barley, 

 Straw after threshing, . 



Balance in favor of crop, 

 Norton, 1857. 



$38 50 



$75 00 

 $35 50 



OATS. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



Statement of Albert Montague, 



I offer for premium a crop of oats raised on one acre of ordi» 

 nary land, which was in corn the year previous, giving me a 

 fair crop. I ploughed the land in November, 1856, and sowed 

 my oats the 25tli of April. I sowed four bushels to the acre, 

 harvested them the 7th of August, and threshed in September, 

 and had sixty-four bushels. 



Value of crop : — 

 64 bushels of oats, at 50 cents, . 

 If tons of straw, .... 



Expenses : — 

 Seed, ploughing, sowing and harrowing, 

 Harvesting and threshing, and hiter,jst, 



Net profit, .... 

 Sunderland, Nov. 10, 1857. 



$46 00 



$12 00 

 134 00 



