70 



small loads green manure, — spread and ploughed in "with a Michi- 

 gan plough ten inches deep, turning in quite a crop of weeds and 

 AA'itch grass ; harrowed thoroughly and sowed two bushels spring 

 wheat, with one peck herd's grass, and one bushel red top ; then 

 cultivated and bushed the same. Harvested in August nineteen 

 bushels good wheat, weighing sixty pounds per bushel. 



Expenses of the crop : — 



Carting and spreading twenty loads manure, . . $3.50 



Ploughing with double plough, 4 oxen and 2 men, 1 day, 4.50 



Cultivating 1 day, $2.50 ; 2 bushels seed, $6 ; sowing .50, 9.00 



Cultivating and bushing, $3 ; half the manure, $10, . 13.00 



Interest on land, $6 ; taxes, .75, .... 6.75 



Heaping part, $1 ; cradling remainder, $1.50, . . 2.50 



Binding $2 ; threshing, $4 ; cleaning $1, . . 7.00 



46.2^ 



Value of crop : — 

 Nineteen bushels of wheat at $2.50 per bushel, . 47.50 



Two tons straw at $5.00 per ton, .... 10.00 



57.50 

 Deduct expenses, .... 46.25 



Net profit, 11.25 



Horatio Mason. 

 East Medway^ November^ 1857. 



HORATIO MASON'S STATEMENT. 



The ground upon which the rye was raised contains one and a 

 half acres. Last year it was manured with twelve loads from the 

 cow-yard and twelve loads meadow mud, which produced a good 

 crop of corn. The corn was removed from the ground about the 

 middle of September. Ploughed eight inches deep ; sowed with 

 one and a half bushels rye and harrowed in. July 16th com- 

 menced reaping, and finished on the 27th ; carted it to the barn 

 on the 28th ; threshed the 14th of August. 



Expenses of the crop : — 

 Land worth $75 per acre ; interest and taxes, . . $6.78 



5.50 

 2.00 

 6.00 

 5.00 

 . 10.00 



Ploughing once, $4 ; harrowing, $1.50, 



Seed and sowing, 



Reaping, $4; binding, $2, 



Threshing, 



Depreciation of land, say . 



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