A man of so little experience of these matters as myself cannot speak with much confidence.
Perhaps the produce may average ten bushels an acre, or twelve at the outside.

Allowance should, however, be made in estimating the quality of the soil, for the space occupied by roots of trees, for inadequate culture, and in some measure to want of rain.

Less has fallen than was wished, but this spring was by no means so dry as the last.

I find that the wheat grown at Rose Hill last year weighed fifty-seven pounds and a half per bushel.

My next visit was to the cattle, which consists of two stallions, six mares, and two colts; besides sixteen cows, two cow-calves, and one bull-calf, which were brought out by the Gorgon.