40 



Product. 

 Fodder, equal to one ton of hay, . $8 00 



40 bs. corn — sometimes have CO, . 40 00 



^43 00 



$23 55 

 Expenses of an acre of Oats. 



Ploughing and dragging, $1 50 ; seed, 2^ bs., $1 25, $2 75 



Manure, and getting out, . . . . 6 00 



Cradling and harvesting, $1 25 ; interest on land, $2 70, 3 95 



$12 70 

 Product. 

 40 bs. oats, at 50 cts, ..... $20 00 



Straw against threshing. 



Had more than 45 bs. this year, 1838. 



Profits on the crop, . . . . $7 30 



I have deemed it best thus at large to report the estimates of prac- 

 tical farmers in different parts of the county, as to the expenses of 

 the cultivation of the different crops, which they are accustomed to 

 raise. The price of labor, at a dollar per day, including board, is 

 undoubtedly above its actual cost ; but it is better it should be 

 so, than that a deceptive impression should be given as to the re- 

 sult by any under estimate of the expense. The estimates were 

 procured sometimes from individual farmers ; at other times, at a 

 meeting of farmers, where the estimates were corrected and deter- 

 mined, by being submitted to their united judgment. I only add, 

 that the most earnest desire has been felt, and all possible pains taken 

 to have these statements exact and true. 



It will be remembered, that in the customary rotation of crops, as 

 say, for example, Indian corn and oats, or potatoes, Indian corn and 

 oats, or Indian corn, potatoes, and oats, the land is generally laid 

 down to grass, and remains in grass from two to three or four years ; 

 or in general, while it continues to yield a ton of hay to a cutting. In 

 a rotation of corn, and oats, there is but one manured crop. Where 

 Indian corn and potatoes precede oats, the land has usually two years' 

 manurings. In the preceding estimates, it will be perceived that the 



