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1891, the corn hills were split with a Randall harrow, 

 ploughed seven inches deep, harrowed and sowed to oats, 

 three bushels to the acre, without manure or fertilizer of 

 any kind. Seed, White Dutch oats of my own raising, 

 the soil is a clay loam. 



COST OF CROP. 



To ploughing and harrowing, 

 " sowing, harrowing and smoothing. 

 Seed, oats, 



Cutting and binding with machine. 

 Drawing and moving, 

 Threshing and winnowing. 



Cost of crop. 



By 7,680 lbs. or 240 bushels oats, 

 3 tons of straw at $9.00, 



Profit, 867 25 



Fifty-eight bushels and a fraction per acre. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



C. K. Ordway & Son. 



I hereby certify that I have measured the land on 

 which the oats entered for premium grew owned by C. K. 

 Ordway & Son, and it contains four acres and twenty-two 

 rods. 



Richard Newell. 



STATEMENT OF ABEL STICKNEY, GROVELAND, HAY CROP. 



The crop of English hay which I enter for the society's 

 premium, was grown on one acre and sixty-four rods of 

 land. This land slopes to the northwest, with a c\q,j sub- 

 soil. 



The crop for 1889 was barley, sown at the rate of two 



