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Statement of the Expense of said Acre of Corn. 



Ploughing, $3 00 



Eight cords of compost manure, 24 00 



Carting and spreading manure and ploughing in the 



same, (> 00 



Planting corn, 6 00 



Seed, . 50 



Hoeing corn twice, 6 50 



Harvesting, securing corn and husks, . . . 9 00 



$55 00 



The returns or credit for the Crop^ viz. : 



103 bushels of corn at 60 cents, $61 80 



Corn fodder, 12 00 



$73 80 

 Expense, 55 00 



Profit, $18 80 



I allow that the manure is not all, or all its goodness, gone, 

 and suppose the same is sufficient to pay for the use of the land. 



Mr. Litteljohn prepared his land for carrots, by spreading on 

 a quarter of an acre 20 loads of 30 cubic feet of compost ma- 

 nure, made of salt ley, droppings of animals and meadow mud. 

 The land, a sandy loam; turnips on it the last year; it was free 

 of weeds. Seed was sown with a machine ; the dressing cost 

 but little labor. Mr. L. estimates the whole expense at only 

 &8 12. 



Statement of George Drew. 



The following is a statement of the preparation of the ground, 

 the planting, dressing and harvesting, of a piece of White 

 Beans, raised on half an acre and 8 rods of land : — 



