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Statement of expense of laying down an acre that was planted 

 last year, adjoining the above : 



Plowing, sowing and harrowing, . . . $4.00 



Two and a half bushels of outs, . . . 1.00 



Grass seed, ...... 1.75 



Harvesting and threshing, .... 8.00 



$14.75 



Income. — 35 bushels of oats, at 45 cts. per bush., 15.75 

 25 hundred of straw, at 50" " hund., 12.50 



$28.25 

 Expense, ....... 14.75 



Balance in favor of crop, .... $13.50 

 Balance " first crop, .... 8.20 



Balance in favor of both crops, . . . 16,70 

 The above statement is as near correct as I could make it. 



Very respectfully yours, 



Lucas Pond. 

 Wrentliam, Nov. 10, 1861. 



REPORT ON GRAIN CROPS. 



The Committee on Grain Crops report, that their duties have 

 not been arduous. The few fields to which their attention has 

 been called, although of very fair appearance, have been sur- 

 passed by many others in the County, whose luxuriant growth 

 alone has attracted their attention — the owners thereof having no 

 desire to shine on the records of the Norfolk Agricultural Society. 

 The Committee would urge this portion of the farmers of the 

 County to take a philanthropic view of the mattfer, and furnish to 

 the Society the ensuing year a detailed statement of their process. 

 From an examination of the reports of some of the oldest agricul- 

 tural societies, and from their own recollections, the Committee are 

 of the opinion, that while great progress has been made in most 

 other pursuits, the process of raising grain among the best farmers, 

 and the results, do not vary materially from those prevalent thirty 

 years ago. 



It is the opinion of many that the custom of charging the corn 

 crop with but half the manure applied, is erroneous, a much 

 larger portion being absorbed ; and we notice that in the state- 



