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twenty-five dollars ; hoeing three times, fifteen dollars — ma- 

 nured in the liill as the previous year ; harvested seventy bush- 

 els of corn, worth eighty cents per bushel, and one hundred 

 bushels of potatoes, worth forty cents per bushel. Finding 

 the water stood on the north part, I put in a drain at a cost 

 of fifty cents per rod, which is eleven dollars and fifty cents. 

 The present season sowed about half the piece with barley ; 

 harvested twenty-six bushels of barley, worth sixty-five cents 

 per bushel. The other half planted with corn and potatoes ; 

 harvested forty bushels of potatoes, worth thirty-three cents 

 per bushel ; have gathered four rows of corn of an average 

 quahty ; shelled and weighed the same, it weighing ninety- 

 eight pounds. There being one hundred and twenty-eight rows, 

 there will be fifty-two bushels, of sixty pounds to the bushel. 



Spread three cords of manure on the corn ground and put 

 six cords in the hill. Cost of ploughing, sowing and planting, 

 twenty dollars ; hoeing three times, eight dollars. The corn 

 fodder and straw paid for the harvesting. 



LAND. 



Gain, $12 60 



Besides the improvement of the land. 



