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good. Then ploughed it in, and in the spring of 1845 ploughed 

 the land once and cultivated it once, then sowed two bushels 

 and three pecks of oats, cost one dollar and one eighth. The 

 oats I soaked in water 24 hours, then rolled them in two bushels 

 of ashes ; then cultivated the land twice and harrowed it once, 

 and then rolled ; the oats were sowed the 15th day of April. 

 The oats measured 92 bushels ; we think the loss in cutting and 

 threshing, 3 bushels, which would make 95. 8 



Statement of Leonard Hill. 



The land on which the corn was raised was in a good state of 

 cultivation. One half acre was planted with potatoes in 1844 

 and had a large crop ; the other half acre was mowed, and cu 

 about ten or twelve hundred hay ; both pieces together making 

 one acre of land of nearly an equal quality. The whole was 

 ploughed in May, 1845, eight inches deep ; then I spread on 3| 

 cords of good stable manure ; after the manure was ploughed 

 in, I furrowed it one way, making the furrows 3 feet apart ; 

 then I put into the furrows 2 cords of the same kind of manure 

 as before described, on which I planted 14 quarts of the large, 

 smutty, white corn ; dropped 3 and 4 in a hill about 20 inches 

 apart, and covered it with a hoe, leaving the land level as before 

 planted. The planting was done 13th to 15th of May ; first 

 hoeing, 10th June ; second hoeing, about the 20th ; it being free 

 from weeds, I did not hoe it again. About the middle of Sep- 

 tember I topped the stalks and housed them. Probably I should 

 not have topped the stalks, if they had stood up well, as they 

 commonly do. 



Statement of the expense of Corn Crop. 



Ploughing, 



5\ cords manure, . 



Hauling on and ploughing, 



Planting, &c. . 



Seed corn, 



Hoeing first time, . 



Hoeing second time, 



