Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Dougherty, 31 December 1808

1808

Amount of the whole expence that attended our crop of oats and hay Utencils included

Sythe and hingings 2. 12½
rake 0. 56
reaping hook 0. 50
reapers and whiskey 13. 97
hawling in oats 2. 50
two months hire of black man 20. 00
Dollars 39. 65½

valuation of the produce Viz:

Say 270 bushels of oats worth 50 Cts. per bushel } 135. 00
   the price that oats now sells at
About 16 CWT, of hay worth 86 cts. per cwt. 13. 76
Oats Straw worth 30. 00
178. 76
39. 65
cleer of all expence Dollars 139. 11

MHi: Coolidge Collection.

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