To take a bushel of oats worth 50 cents, add water, let them sprout and have five bushels costing 10 cents, is certainly a wonderful achievement in wealth getting.
This leaves fifteen hundred bushels of corn to be purchased.
Meanwhile the English managed "to wrangle" some ten bushelsof corn out of the chief for a copper kettle.
These people refused not only to provide the four hundred bushels of corn which they had promised in their treaty with the colonists on their previous visit, but they refused to trade at all.
If I have now seventy-five pounds to pay in taxes, it will require a hundred and ninetybushels of wheat to pay my share of taxes.
Suppose, for instance, that four years ago, I had a hundred pounds to pay in taxes, then a hundred and thirty bushels of wheat would have paid my share.
The Snark was so thickly packed with presents of all sorts that there was hardly room to walk, even though every toss of the boat sent bushels of oranges, bananas, and other fruits sliding into the sea.
Now-a-days the average acre in England will produce about 29 bushels of wheat or 40 of oats.
This would give us 20 million bushels as food, or, we will say, 15 bushels for every person.
The scientific agriculturist of the thirteenth century proposed to sow an acre with two bushels of wheat and regarded tenbushels as the proper return[1437].
Gilbert reckon that for an unmanured acre in England 16 bushels would be an average return, but that if the same acre is continuously sown with wheat, the yield will decline at the rate of nearly a quarter of a bushel every year.
In 1833 they raised from eight hundred to a thousand bushelsof corn, and the population of the village was one hundred and twenty-five.
Sixty bushels of corn and several barrels of pork were furnished by Major Dearborn to Mr. H.
Not only the regular feeding four times a day requires his attention, but the simple mixing of seventy-five to one hundred bushels of feed each day is quite a little job of itself, especially when the different ingredients should be exact.
I now grow two or three hundred bushels yearly to supply my own and neighbors' wants, and just to keep my hand in.
On account of the lateness of the season, pease escape the bugs, which are elsewhere so destructive; and thousands of bushels of seed are sent every year to the upper Peninsula.
The wheat in the near county of Herts is fair, and will turn twenty bushels to the acre; here and there an enterprising landholder has a small field of dibbled grain, which will yield a third more.
It is probable he received those eight hundred dollars for one hundred bushels of wheat, which were never worth more than one hundred silver dollars.
As to bread, I suppose they will require about forty or forty-five thousand bushelsof grain a year.
Markham states that the ordinary bread of the London baker is made of one sack or 5 bushels of flour; 8 oz.
This is equivalent to a return of the duty on 1-1/2 bushels of malt, with an allowance of 3d.
The usual quantity per acre is 70 bushels, when used alone; but when mixed with ashes or other common manure, 30 bushels per acre is said to be enough.
From 7 to 10 bushels of potatoes are required to plant an acre.
Three to five bushels to the acre is the ordinary application of grass seed (page 79).
In the chimney of the room I believe there were two bushels of broken tobacco-pipes, and almost half one load of ashes.
My crop of wheat will yield not less than thirty bushels to the acre," he whispered to himself.
Flaxseed that he had raised and sold thousands of bushels of in years gone by for one dollar a bushel he was now compelled to pay the sum of $3.
But I am in a hurry, so if I should reap now, I dare say I shall have one hundred bushels at least.
A Crane who heard his words said: "If I were you, I should have all the three hundredbushels this very day.
The Crane and the Fool In the East there lived a Fool, who went one day to his fields and said: "I sowed a month ago; should the crops stand two months more, I shall get three hundredbushels of corn.
My mode of application was as follows; to each 200 lbs of guano I added two bushels of ashes and a bushel of plaster mixed intimately, and then sown broadcast, at the rate of six and a half bushels per acre, harrowed in with a light harrow.
Adjoining the three acres is an equal quantity of land of the same quality, which did not yield five bushels to the acre.
I am confident the field would not have averaged, without the top dressing, seven bushels per acre--it yielded rather over 13 bushels, besides securing to me a full setting of clover.
This ground would not have yielded fifteen bushels per acre without the guano.
In the fall, give a dressing of salt equal to 15 or 20 bushels to the acre.
With all these disadvantages, the crop was estimated at harvest at twenty bushels to the acre.
One half the above quantity and five bushels of bone dust dissolved in sulphuric acid, will produce a wonderful crop of turnips, or ruta bagas.
These "diamond-backs" would consume five bushels of shrimps in one hour when fed.
The rich lands here produced as high as fifty-five bushels of rice to the acre, under forced slave labor; now the free blacks cannot wrest from nature more than twenty-five or thirty bushels.
The majority of the negroes were absent working within the diked enclosures of this large estate, which before the war had produced forty thousand bushels of rice annually.
Canada had surely a higher destiny than to export a few hundred bushels of wheat and flour to England.
In 1834 I met a settler from the township of Warwick, on the Caradoc Plains, returning from the grist mill at Westminster, with the flour and bran of thirteen bushels of wheat.
Illustration] Great was our rejoicing, five days later, when the men came back, bringing with them an hundred bushels of Indian corn.
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