The mink, the muskrat, and other animals that hunt along the water, and have a taste for fish, have a good time of it among them, for we saw bushels of shells in places where the fish had been extracted and devoured.

The average covered seems to be from 47 to 55 bushels per acre, and no fertilizers of any sort being required.

The census apprises us that its average crop of corn is but fifteen bushels to the acre, in place of fifty to sixty in Illinois, and even this depends in part on guano or artificial stimulants.

It was an ingenious contrivance, by which a man with a strong back and of a strong constitution, could clean some twenty bushels in a single day).

This year, 1790, since the establishment of copyholders, though several less acres were planted last year in Guinea corn than usual, yet we have been able to sell several hundred bushels at a high price, and we have still a great stock in hand.

" "Did what, Adam?" "Found the fortun' as he were always a-lookin' for,a sack o' golden soverings, sir, an' bank-notes, Mr. Belloo, sir,bushels on 'em; enoughah!

Wheat was generally sold, at that time for one shilling, the bushel; if, therefore, we take five shillings the bushel for the current price, ten pounds were equivalent to fifty.

An' we lose millions of bushels from this smut.

The revolution which began a decade ago in America has not spread to Bengal, where the average yield of grain per acre is only 10 bushels as compared with 30 in Europe.

If poverty steps behind you and claps the occulting bushel over your thirty thousand candle-power luminary, your brilliancy is apt to be obscured.

They found "a battoe loaded with corn," apparently abandoned, and took about three bushels with them.

Cram a bushel into a peck, though 'The Doctor' said you never could do that!

" "Then I expect I had better hide my attractions under a bushel during the remainder of my stay at Caddagat?"

The effect is as if some one were sowing diamonds by the bushel above the water.

" "Well, chile, heah's de fust few bushels ob cherries.