;24 Profit of Soiling cattle. 



profits will pay a handsome interest on a capital of 

 about 19,300, dollars vested in and employed on this 

 estabUshment, which appears to me something like elu- 

 cidating the point by mathematical demonstration. 



As measurement and weight of bulky articles on a 

 farm cannot be estimated with the same precision, as 

 they are when carried to market I state below the 

 mode on which the foregoing estimate is generally 

 founded. 



I am your very respectful humble servant. 



John Lorain. 



The first loads of potatoes were measured, and the 

 carts marked, and afterwards filled to this gage ; they 

 have heretofore overrun on being riddled, the small 

 at first lay between the cavities of the large. 



The corn was all correctly measured in a tub very 

 similar to a Maryland corn barrel, one was shelled and 

 measured from which the crop is estimated it ; is evi- 

 dent this will shrink in the crib, but I have no certain 

 rule to determine how much. 



I consider eight square feet or 512 cubical feet forms 

 a ton of hay in a well settled mow ; where it lies shallow 

 oris not well settled, allowances should be made. 



The mode of measuring dung is explained in a for- 

 mer communication. 



