Captain McGowan, of Lincoln County, also gave twenty-five bushels as the average crop, and said this would hold good for the whole period since the settlement of the county, including the bad year 1886.
The average yield of wheat year by year for the entire Territory is put by Governor Squire at twenty-five bushels, and no one who knows the country can regard this otherwise than as a moderate estimate.
A farmer (apparently honest) told me that he had raised seventy-five bushels to the acre over his whole wheat area.
One half the above quantity and five bushelsof bone dust dissolved in sulphuric acid, will produce a wonderful crop of turnips, or ruta bagas.
Plowed down the stubble with same application, and when we saw the crop, should have been willing to insure it at twenty-five bushels.
The weight of grain per bushel is fifty-seven pounds, and the price ten shillings per five bushels.
The production of seed per acre is about twenty-five bushels, valued at 13 pounds.
I had forty-five bushels to the acre last year," he says, "and the present crop will be equally good.
I raised thirty-five bushels of wheat to the acre last year, and I guess I shall have that this year," said the owner of the farm.
At Sydney, the spot of cleared ground called the Governor's Farm had produced about twenty-five bushels of barley.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five bushels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
