6 bs. seed wheat, at $3, 



Preparing seed, 50 cts.; 1 peck salt, 25 cts., 



2 bs. lime, 6S cts.; labor in sowing, $1, 



3 days, man and team, harrowing the wheat, 

 2 men, 3 days, to cart and spread manure, team 

 24 loads of manure, at 50 cts., . 

 350 lbs. plaster, at ^13 per ton, 

 Sowing plaster, ^ of a day, 



2 hands, 3 days' reaping, $6 ; board of hands, $1 



3 days' work binding, $3 ; board, 75 cts.. 

 Carting, 2 hands 1^ day, and team, ^3 75 ; board, 75 cts. 



and cart, 



50, 



$72 79 



The soil is, what is here called, a dark loam, strongly siliceous. 

 The substratum is mica slate. 



This farmer has been uniformly successful in obtaining good crops 

 of wheat, unless when he has suffered from accidents, not connected 

 with the cultivation, and not foreseen nor controllable by human saga- 

 city or skill. 



In Richmond, the expenses of cultivation are thus estimated : 



One acre of Corn. 



Ploughing, $2 ; seed, 5 qts., 25 cts., 

 15 loads manure, J cord each, at 50 cts., $7 50, half 

 charged to the corn, .... 



Getting out and spreading manure, 3 days, half charged, 

 Harrowing, ^ day, $1 ; planting, 2 J feet each way, $1, 

 Hoeing 3 times, $3 ; and horse, $1 50, 

 Topping stalks, $1 ; gathering and husking, $4, 

 1 bs. plaster, 50 cts., ..... 

 Interest on land, at MO, .... 



Product. 



Forty-five bushels, at 75 cts.. 

 Fodder, equal to | ton of hay. 



Balance in favor of corn, 



$33 75 

 7 50 



$2 25 



3 25 



1 50 



2 00 



4 50 



5 00 

 50 



2 40 



$21 40 



41 25 



$19 85 



