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sown. The oats are quite heavy, weighing thirty-four pounds per 

 bushel. Crop, seventy-one bushels. Straw weighed two and a 

 half tons. 



Expenses of Crop. 



Ploughing, $.3.00 



Seed, 4i bushels at 60 cents, .... 2.70 



Sowing, 50 cents, harrowing, $1.50, . . . 2.00 



Ten bushels of ashes, 80 cents, spreading 20 cents, 1.00 



Cutting, raking, and binding, .... 4.50 



Threshing and cleaning, . . . . . 8.00 



Interest on land, and taxes, .... 6.80 



$28.00 



Value of Groj. 



Seventy-one bushels of oats at 60 cents, . . $42.06 



Two and a half tons of straw at $10.00, . . 25.00 



$67.60 

 Deduct cost, . . . 28.00 



Net profit, . . . $39.60 



Wheat. The field of wheat entered by me for premium, meas- 

 ures 117 rods, and was part of an old pasture until 1858, when it 

 was ploughed and planted with potatoes, manured with coarse ma- 

 nure composed mostly of meadow hay, that had been used for litter 

 under the cattle. In 1859 it was in corn, with a good shovelful 

 of compost manure applied to each hill. Soil, a gravelly loam. 

 The first week in JNIay last I ploughed the ground seven inches 

 deep, and the next week sowed one bushel Java wheat, one cask 

 air-slacked lime, and ten bushels of leached ashes, when the whole 

 were harrowed in together. Harvested in August twelve bushels 

 good wheat, weighing sixty pounds per bushel. 



UxjMnses of Crop. 



Ploughing once, ...... 



Seed, $2.50, Hme and ashes, $1.13, 



Sowing seed, lime and ashes, 50 cents, harrowing, 75 cts. 



Cradling, 75 cents, binding, $1, 



Threshing, $1.50, carting straw, $2, 



Interest on land, and taxes, .... 



$14.12 



