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In the preceding account I find no charge for the labor of 

 oxen or horses ; neither is there any for manure. The hay m 

 this, as in the other accounts, is estimated, with a stock of one 

 horse, one pair of oxen, one cow and four two year old heifers. 

 I find purcliased and charged in the above account, 5 tons 

 1,614 pounds hay, at $64.00, to carry them through the winter 

 of 1851-2 ; and for the same stock I purchased in tlie follow- 

 ing winter of 1852-3, 7 tons 1,842 pounds for $95.30. It ap- 

 pears by the above account, that the crops did not cover the 

 cost of cultivation and expenses, exclusive of manure and 

 team labor, by the sum of $98.13. 



There are two reasons which induce me to ask that the 

 accounts for the year 1857, may here be inserted ; tlie one is, 

 that the crops of that year were more satisfactory than those of 

 this ; the other is, that the account of that year is fully made 

 up, whicli cannot be the case with tliat of the present, as they 

 run from April to April, and all the crops are not yet harvested. 



All the omissions I find in the following accounts are the 

 charges of seed on the potato and corn crops ; the small 

 accounts for manure charged to second crops, were experiments 

 with guano, &c. 



By tliis account it appears that the crops exceeded the cost 

 of cultivation and expenses by the sum $815.72. 



In relation to tlie hay crop of this and the year next preced- 

 ing, it will be observed that in 1857 there were in pasture but 

 four and a half acres. On this I put a pair of oxen and three 

 cows. When the grass became short, they wxre soiled with 

 clover from the mowing land, which decreased the crop to some 

 extent, how much, I am unable to form an opinion. The pres- 

 ent year two and a half acres of this pasture Avas ploughed and 

 planted, consequently the balance, two acres, is unimproved, 

 and three cows and a horse have been soiled the whole season, 

 from the mowing land. 



