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and sixty-eight bushels, being at the rate of seven hundred and 

 sixty bushels to the acre. But for the extreme dry weather 

 during the latter part of the season, the yield would have been 

 much greater. The soil was a deep loam, but altogether too 

 strong for the crop. The account of the cost of the crop is as 

 follows : — 



Interest on the value of the land at $100 per acre, - ^2 00 

 Ploughing twice and harrowing two half days, man and 

 team, -------- 



Seed, and sowing same, _ - - - _ 

 Manure, 30 loads, and carting, $40; (i to the crop,) 

 Weeding three times, (10 days,) - - - - 



Harvesting 6^ days, oxen 2 days, - _ - 



Worcester, Nov. 14, 1846. 



$36 00 



Jonas Hartshorn^ s Statement. 



On the land, in 1844, was grown a crop of potatoes without 

 manure ; it was prepared for a crop of carrots in the spring of 

 1845, and on it was put six loads of green manure, and the prod- 

 uct was a good crop of carrots. The condition of the land in 

 the spring of 1846 was very good, on which was placed five 

 loads of green manure and three loads of compost manure. The 

 ground was ploughed three times, and, on the third of June, the 

 seed was sowed with a seed-sower. July, first weeds were 

 taken out the first time, and the crop was harvested November 

 5th, and measured 163 bushels. The expense as follows : — 



Seed, - - _ 

 5 loads green manure, 

 3 " compost " 

 Cultivation, - 

 Harvesting crop, - 



$21 46 



