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84 bushels of wheat sold for seed, weight 63 lbs. 

 per bushel, 88^1 at $1,40 $124 48 



It is worthy of remark, that the half acre of sod ground produced 

 the best wheat. It was plow^ed but once ; the furrow was 9 inches 

 deep and 17 wide, completely inverted, and a heavy roller passed 

 twice over it, and the manure applied as a top dressing, well harrow- 

 ed in. 



The bushel of wheat exhibited at the Fair of the American Insti- 

 tute, was from the sward, and weighed 64 lbs. 



HENRY ROBINSON. 



Jv'ewburgh, JV. F., Jd7i. 8, 1849. 



GEORGE NESBITST, MODE OF RAISING OATS AND PEAS. 



The Poland oats I raised and presented for premium, was grown on 

 land that produced a crop of peas the season previous. The land 

 had never been manured ; was plowed once in the spring previous to 

 •owing, and sown at the rate of three bushels per acre. 



I have been careless in keeping a memorandum of the labor expend- 

 ed in raising the crop, and cannot fairly give a technical account of 

 the profits of the crop, but the following may be relied on as sub- 

 stantially correct. 



I use a team of horses, and average plowing at the rate of one acre 

 per day. I also use a triangular drag or harrow, with eleven teeth, 

 and harrow in the seed of three acres per day, dragging in two differ- 

 ent directions twice on a place, which amounts to dragging the ground 

 four times over. 



My farm is a gravelly loam, new, steep and uneven, and a harrow 

 of the above description answers my purpose best. I raised at the 

 rate of 40 bushels per acre. I sell a considerable quantity yearly to 

 Mr. Alexander Smith, seedsman and florist. New- York, at the rate of 

 one dollar per bushel. In harvesting the oats I cut them before ful- 

 ly ripe, as at that period in a storm they are apt to lodge down and 



