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To drawing off stumps with team, 



Grass seed, 



Eight loads manure on part of it, . 



Cr. 



By ten cords of wood, 



Sixty bushels ashes, at 10 cents, . 

 Ten bushels turnips, at 25 cents, . 

 Six bushels buckwheat, at 95 cents. 

 Four bushels pease in pod, . 

 One and one-half tons hay standing, 



By balance charged lands, . 



The ditches were made at 25 cents per rod. 



$63 50 



Statement of John Hale. 



The piece of land that I entered for improvement was, in 

 1865, a swamp covered with stumps and brush. I commenced 

 by cutting a ditch through one side of it, and in 1865, removed 

 most of the stumps and brush, and hoed into the muck potatoes 

 on a part of it, from which I have harvested a good crop. 



In the fall of 1866 I worked a few days in getting out stumps, 

 &c., but the season was so wet that I did not do as much as I 

 wished to. In 1867 I ploughed it with a heavy plough and two 

 yoke of cattle, and this season I dragged it thoroughly and 

 sowed buckwheat, and got a fair crop, and my land is now 

 ready for the grass seed. Then I think my land will be worth 

 $100 per acre. It was of little value before I commenced im- 

 proving it. 1 have expended about $50 per acre, for which my 

 crops would credit some $12. 



D. B. Fenn, Chairman. 



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