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banded sheaves, which were, when well seasoned, quite as heavy 

 as I cared to pitch, upon that pretty warm day, July 20th, Of 

 these sheaves we had thirty-one dozen, and the heads were well 

 loaded with plump grain. The other part was mowed and cured 

 like hay, and pitched up into cocks, so that we could estimate it 

 as though in sheaves, which we did at full twenty dozen, I think 

 it was more, as it made two snug ox-cart loads, and more than 

 two-thirds the bulk and apparent weight of the other part. Then 

 there was beside, a little load of rakings, I will call the whole 

 fifty-two dozen stout double-banded sheaves, which, if threshed, 

 would surely ^aeld a bushel to the dozen. 



Now, was that a good crop for such land as the average of the 

 badly-worm farms of Westchester county, upon a piece of ground 

 of the following dimensions? The first side is 156 feet; the 

 one opposite to it, 183 feet ; the two other sides, one is 168 feet 

 and the opposite 213 feet. The superficial contents if I calculate 

 right, are 32,290 feet. The superficial contents of an acre are 

 43,560 feet- Three-fourths of an acre, then, contains 32,670 feet, 

 go that my patch of oats lacks 380 superficial feet of surface of 

 being three-quarters of an acre ; and what I want to know about 

 it is, whether farmers hereabouts will consider it a pretty good 

 crop ? And if it is, I want to know whether it is not worth their 

 while to think about manuring oat ground? And also think 

 about plowing oat ground with a good-sized subsoil plow ? And 

 what do they think about plowing in the seed ? And finally, 

 what about sowing four bushels of seed per acre, and harvesting 

 sixteen fold ? It is a matter which will do to think about. 



Mr. Carpenter. — I have threshed oats, no better than the piece 

 mentioned by Mr. Robinson, which I saw while growing, and 

 they produced a bushel to ten sheaves ; this would give him 62 

 bushels — say 80 bushels per acre, I have no doubt that the 

 same result may be produced in the same way upon large fields. 



Adjourned. 



H- MEIGS, Secretary. 



August 6, 1860. 

 Present — 56 members. 

 Mr. Adrian Bergen, of Long Island, in the chair. 



COMMERCE IN HAMBURG. 



Judge Meigs, the Secretary, commenced the business of the 

 day by calling attention to a new work just issued in Hamburg, 



