90 



bushels and fifty-two pounds. I can sell the wheat at $1.60 

 per bushel ; value of wheat, $66.98. I had 4495 lbs. of straw 

 which I sold for |14 per ton, amounting to $31.46. 



Cost of ploughing, harrowing and rolling, 85.00 



Cost of seed and sowing, ' 2.00 



Cost of cutting and harvesting, 10.00 



Cost of threshing and winnowing, 10. Oil 



$27.00 



Value of wheat, $66.98 



Value of straw, 31.46 



$98.44 

 Cost, 27.00 



Profit, $71.44 



This certifies that I surveyed the acre of land on which the 

 above crop was grown. Philip D. Adams. 



I certify that I weighed the wheat and that it is as above 

 ■•stated. Jacob D. Ray. 



STATEMENT OF RICHARD NEWELL. 



The land on which the crop of Eye which 1 offer for pre- 

 mium was grown, was ploughed in the spring of 1880, and six 

 icords of good barnyard manure spread on and harrowed in, 

 ^nd planted with potatoes on tlie 11th of May. Harvested 

 the crop the first week in September ; had 150 bushels of 

 •excellent potatoes and 50 bushels of small ones. As soon as 

 the potatoes were off, I ploughed the land and sowed four 

 hundred lbs. of Crocker's Ammoniated Bone Phosphate, and 

 sowed to Winter Rye on the 9th of September, sowing one 

 bushel of seed. Crop reaped and stacked July 27, 1881. 

 Aug. <6th had the crop weighed on public scales and put in 

 barn. Aug. 16, finished threshing and winnowing and 



