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loam from the same field, "were spread evenly over the surface 

 and well harrowed in. On the 1st day of June the land was 

 marked out with a plough exactly six feet apart, and cabbages 

 set in the furrows two feet apart ; three or four days after- 

 wards corn was planted between each row of cabbages, in hills 

 twenty-two inches apart, five or or six kernels in a hill; at the 

 first hoeing it was thinned out, leaving four stalks in each 

 hill. Both the cabbages and corn were hoed twice only. 



The cabbages were marketed in September and October, 

 and sold for one hundred and fifteen dollars. 



In the month of August twelve barrels of the corn were 

 gathered green and sold in Boston for fifteen dollars ; the re- 

 mainder of the crop was cut up near the ground about the 15th 

 of September, and shocked upon the field. The first week in 

 October it was husked, and produced eighty-eight baskets of 

 corn on the ear. On the 11th of November one basket was 

 shelled, and weighed thirty-eight and one-half pounds, making 

 three thousand three hundred and eighty-eight pounds, which, 

 divided by fifty-six pounds, the standard for a bushel, give 

 sixty and one-half bushels, which, together with the twelve bar- 

 rels sold green, supposed to be equal to one and one-quarter 

 baskets of ears to each barrel, or fifteen baskets of thirty-eight 

 and one-half pounds each of shelled corn, making five hundred 

 and seventy-seven pounds of corn, which divided by fifty-six, give 

 ten and one-quarter bushels, or seventy and three-fourths bushels 

 on thirty-eight thousand four hundred and eighty-four square 

 feet of land, being a fraction over eighty bushels per acre, or 

 more properly a half acre, as the corn occupied but one-half of 

 the land. 



Since the crops have been taken off, the land has been sur- 

 veyed. 



Expenses : — 



Ploughing the land, .... 



Eight loads of night soil, 

 Composting, carting out, spreading, and har 

 rowing, ...... 



Planting corn, ..... 



Setting out cabbage plants, . 



