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Dr. 



To plowing & harrowing, 



4days, $6 00 



Toplow'g,! horse, 4 days, 5 00 



riding marl, 1 day, - - 1 50 

 hoeing and weeding, 7 



days, 5 25 



ashes and plaster, 3 00 



putting on ashes, &c.,- 1 50 



seed corn, 50 



cutting and shocking, 2 50 



husking and riding, - - 6 00 



interest on lands, 12 00 



147 



Cr. 



By 184 bushels of corn, 



at70c., $128 80 



By 4 loads of stalks, -- 15 00 

 By poor corn, 150 



$144 50 

 Expenses, 43 25 



Profit, $101 25 



$43 25 



M. P. COON'S 



Plan of Fencing. 



I have from my youth been a practical farmer, and learned by 

 practical experience that the " fencing of the farm," was one of the 

 items of expenses which draw heavily upon the resources of the 

 farmer, and in the county which I reside (Rensselaer, N. Y.,) I saw 

 and felt that the expense was rapidly on the increase. Stone wall 

 may be made only in certain localities. Timber in many regions 

 is very scarce, and withal destructible. The quality required to build 

 aiy or all of the diflferent varieties of field fence, requires a heavy 

 outlay and much labor in the procurement and transporation. In ad- 

 dition to this a continual expense to keep the different varieties un- 

 der diiferent circumstances, and on different soils in repair. 



Not having time or space to enumerate the many different difficul- 

 ties the farmer has continually to encounter from year to year by fen- 

 cing his farm according to the present system, I will, however, state 

 a few of the most prominent. First, the original cost ; second, the 

 destructibility ; third, the difficulty on different soils- ; and fourth, lo- 

 cation. 



