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bushels of oats on the furrows, and cross-ploughed them in (deep) 

 and levelled the ground with a cultivator. 



Expense of ploughing, sowing, cross-ploughing, cultivating, 

 cradhng, raking, binding, carrying in, threshing, winnowing, 

 and seed sown, $13 65. The oats, which grew on the said 

 land, measured sixty-two bushels. 



Halifax, Oct. 23, 1848. 



George W. Wood^s Statement. 



The land on which my oats were raised, is a loamy knoll, 

 with a clay bottom, and was planted to potatoes, in 1847. Be- 

 fore planting the potatoes, I spread 30 loads of good compost 

 manure. In April, 1848, ploughed and sowed the oats; first 

 ploughed, then harrowed it well, sowed 2J bushels good oats to 

 the acre, then cultivated the oats in, then harrowed and bushed, 

 till I made the ground very fine and stocked it down to grass. 

 July 21 to 24, cut the oats, raked, bound and put them in 

 the barn ; Sept. 11 and 12, threshed and winnowed them up — 

 they measured a little more than 56 bushels on one acre, and 

 -f^^ of a rod. 



Expense of ploughing, . . . . $1 23 



Harrowing, cultivating, bushing, sowing oats and grass 

 Seed, ....... 



Cradling, 75 cents. Taking up and getting in, $1 47, 

 Threshing and cleaning, .... 



2J bushels of oats for seed .... 



$10 87 



Income. — I had, it was judged, one ton of straw worth $6 GO, 

 56 bushels oats, at 44 cents, $24 46, making $30 46. 

 MiDDLEBOROUGH, Oct. 7, 1848. 



