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September ; threshed in October. Yield, 32^ bushels, or 

 about 34] bushels to the acre. 



EXPENSES. 



Two bushels wheat at $1 25 per bushel, . . . |2 50 

 Labor, preparing land and sowing, self and team, 



three days each, . . . . . . . 6 00 



Harvesting and threshing, . . . . . . 7 00 



Total expenses, $15 50 



Value of crop, 32| bushels wheat, at $1 25 per bush., $40 62 

 Two tons of straw, at $5 per ton, . . . . 10 00 



Total value of crop, $50 62 



Total expenses, . . . . . . . 15 50 



Leaving a balance in favor of crop of . . . $35 12 



Lucius Cooke's Statement. 



The subscriber, a member of the Franklin County Agricul- 

 tural Society, submits the following statements relative to the 

 cultivation of a patch of carrots raised by him the current 

 year. 



Said carrots were raised on Wendell Hill, in said county, on 

 the place whereon said applicant now lives. The exact quan- 

 tity of land was three-fourths of an acre, and the number of 

 bushels, or baskets, six hundred and fifty-one ; and the number 

 of tons, sixteen. This number of tons was ascertained by 

 weighing four or five loads on the hay scales, as they were 

 drawn from the field, and dividing the sum of their weight by 

 the number of bushels, or baskets, and finding them to average 

 fifty pounds. 



The land on which these carrots were raised, had been 

 mowed for eight years prior to 1850, when it was planted with 

 potatoes, nearly all of which were destroyed by the disease, and 

 were not worth half the cost of harvesting. 



In 1851 the land was planted to corn, which was much 

 damaged by worms, and afterwards set out to ruta bagas, 

 which grew well, and yielded a fine crop, but having no ani- 

 mals that would eat them, except horses, they were kept through 



