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Liberty Wellington's Statement. 

 The amount of Rye raised on one acre was 34 1-4 bushels. 

 Expense, One bushel and three quarts of seed, 1 37 

 Two day's work getting in, 2 00 



Three " " cutting and binding, 3 00 

 Three " " threshing and cleaning, 3 00 

 One " " carting, 1 00 



$10 37 

 LIBERTY WELLINGTON. 



Benjamin Wheeler's Statement. 

 I hereby certify that my field of Spring Rye contains one 

 acre and 142 rods ; the expense for labor was 



Plowing, sowing and harrowing, 7 1-2 days, $7 50 



Harvesting, 5 1-2 days, - - - 5 50 



$13 00 

 Yield of Rye was thirty-six and three-fourths bushels ; or 

 nineteen one-eighth bushels of fifty-nine one-half pounds per 

 acre. 



The same field was planted with corn last year, and ma- 

 nured with barn manure, one shovel full to the hill ; no ma- 

 nure used this year. 



BENJAMIN WHEELER. 



Vouchers — Alfred M. Wheeler, 

 James B. Wheeler. 



Charles Nicholson's Statement. 

 The land, one hundred and fourteen square rods, on which 

 my oats were raised, the present season, had been planted 

 two years, manuring with twenty loads of barn-yard manure. 

 This year the - oats were sowed without any manure. We 

 threshed and cleaned sixty bushels of oats, which weighed 

 thirty-nine pounds to the bushel. 



Expense, Man and Oxen one day, - $2 00 



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