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Last April, about the 25tli, I ploughed the land, and sowed 

 two bushels of wheat, well washed and mixed with a peck of 

 wood ashes ; after sowing I harrowed and rolled well. The 

 Soil was a clayey loam, and had been planted two years — the 

 last year with mangel wurzels, producing about thirty tons to 

 the acre. 



This crop of wheat I harvested in August, and threshed in 

 October. The yield was 30 3-8 bushels of wheat, and 1^ tons 

 of straw. 



Cost of crop : 



Ploughing, '$2 50 



2 bushels of seed, 4 00 



Sowing and harrowing, 1 00 



Harvesting, 4 00 



Threshing and cleaning, 4 00 



Rent of land, 5 00 



$20 50 

 Value of crop: 

 80 3-8 bushels of wheat, at 82, f 60 37 



11-2 tons of straw, at $10, 15 00 



$75 37 

 Net profit, $54.87, 



Land surveyed by Thomas Cotton. 

 Salem, Nov. 6, 1862. 



STATEMENT OF S. A. MERRILL. 



I submit the following statement of a grain crop : — 



The first week in May last I ploughed a piece of ground 



