27 



Getting out and applying manure, two men and team 



one day ; half to the corn, 

 Planting 3 ft. by 4 ft., 



Ploughing and hoeing twice $6, topping stocks 50 cts 

 Gathering 4 days $4, cutting up butt stalks $1, 

 Interest on land at 5^40, 



Product. 

 Stalks and fodder equal to half ton of hay, ^5 00 



40 bush, corn at $1, . . . 40 00 



$22 75 



15 00 



Profits on corn, .... 



Expenses of an acre of Oats. 

 Ploughing and harrowing, $1 50 ; half the manure, $4 50, 

 Seed, 2^ bs. at 42 cts., $1 05 ; cradling and tying up, $ 1 , 

 Getting in, 50 cts.; interest on land, $2 40, 



$22 25 



Product. 



Forty bushels oats, at 42 cts. 

 Straw equivalent to threshing. 



Profits on oats, 



$5 85 



The rotation of crops in West Stockbridge is thus stated, on land 

 well limed : 



1 . On a clover ley, winter wheat. 



2. Wheat, 25 to 30 bs. 



3. Corn, 40 bs., with manure. 



4. Corn, without manure. 



5. Either oats, rye, or wheat, at pleasure, and laid down to grass. 



West Stockbridge produces oats enough for sale beyond their own 

 wants to purchase all their bread. They make pork enough for their 

 own consumption ; and generally produce a sufBciency of the sub- 

 stantials of life for their own consumption. 



