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ninety-six cents. There were also seven busliels of small 

 potatoes worth two shillings per hu^-hel. Manured again the 

 last of July, and jdoughed and sowed to flat turnips and stocked 

 down. The turnip crop is estimated at one hundred and fifty 

 bushels, which, at one shilling per bushel, is twenty-five dollars. 



Lot No. 2. Tillage. — One acre and six rods was in winter 

 wheat, of the red Mediterranean yariety, following potatoes. 

 It was ploughed and sowed about the fifteenth of September 

 with one hundred bushels of refuse gas lime whicli had been 

 ex|)0sed to the weather two or more years, and stocked down to 

 grass. It was threshed and cleaned in September, yieldinir, by 

 measure, thirty-two bui-hels and three pecks, and by weight, 

 sixty-four pounds to the bushel; making a little over thirty-five 

 bushels lawful weight. 



Lai No. 3. Three-fourths of an acre, second year of tillage 

 in cal)bage, following corn. Ten cords of compost were 

 ploughed in, ten inches deep in April. It was ploughed again 

 in May, and set with " Early York " and " Medium and flat 

 Dutch;" guano and plaster were mixed and hoed in around 

 each plant the two first hoeings. Sales to October 11th, seventy 

 dollars and ninety-seven cents. The lot will bring one hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars. 



Lot No. 4. Potatoes. — One acre and a half, first year of 

 tillage ; ploughed with double plough, ten inches deep, the turf 

 being handsomely buried in the bottom of the furrows. It was 

 manured in drills, five cords to the acre, and planted with 

 " Jackson," " Child's," "Davis's seedling" and "Lyman's seed- 

 lings." They were hoed twice, and yielded as follows : — 



" Early Jackson's," one bushel of good potatoes to the square 

 rod ; " Davis's seedling," one and a half bushel to the square 

 rod ; " Child's," one and a quarter bushel, and the " Lyman's 

 seedling," about one bushel to tiie square rod. The potatoes 

 were all measured in two baskets, one weighing sixty-nine 

 pounds and the other sixty-two pounds per bushel. After 

 deducting the weight of the basket, one hundred and sixty-nine 

 bushels sold for ninety-two dollars and thirty cents. Large and 

 small of all varieties measured three hundred and eleven 

 bushels. 



Lot No. 5. One acre and twenty rods. Spring wheat fol- 

 lowed cabbage and potatoes, sowed April 7th with fifty bushels 



