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no beneficial results. Plaster is indispensable with clover, whether 

 it is a benefit to the wheat plant or not, is an unsettled point with 

 farmers. 



11. Two hundred and eighty acres of my farm are in regular rota- 

 tion under the plow, eighty-five acres was in wheat the past year, 

 eight acres in corn, twenty-five in oats, two and a half potatoes, six 

 peas, and four and a half turneps. I have now in wheat one hun- 

 dred and seventeen acres, all summer fallowed. 



12. The past wheat crop was sown a little more than two bushels 

 of seed per acre, on account of the dryness of the season, but it all 

 came up, and was too thick and heavy on the ground, which caused 

 it to rust and shrink ; it was sown from the 25th August to the 10th 

 September. Some of the heaviest was reaped, but generally cut 

 with the cradle. About forty acres was shrunk, and only yielded 

 twenty-seven and a half bushels per acre, which, had it ripened well, 

 would have yielded forty, and by many it was thought more bushels 

 per acre. The present crop, or seeding of this fall, was sown from 

 the 1st to the 15th September, with one bushel and a half of the 

 white flint variety, on regular summer fallows, all plowed three 

 times, and some of it four, and thoroughly dragged. 



13. 14. Answered to previous questions. 



15. I have never had any disease in my potato crop, although it 

 has prevailed to some degree in this region. It is thought by some 

 of our best observers, that the cause of the disease is in the leaf, and 

 is analagous to the curl in Europe. 



Grass Lands. 



16. I use clover and timothy alone on wheat land, and red top and 

 timothy on black or mucky land, six quarts of clover and eight quarts 

 of timothy per acre ; one-half of the timothy in the fall at seeding 

 time, and the balance with the whole clover in the spring, before the 

 last falls of snow, or before the frost has done operating on the soil. 

 In all cases intended for mowing, the large kind of clover should be 

 used with timothy, as they both ripen together ; if only for pasture, 

 and to plow in as manure, the medium kind will answer. 



17. I have mowed but twenty acres the past year. I have now 

 fifty acres stocked down. Old meadows have this year hardly ave- 

 raged one ton per acre, and new ones about two tons. I commence 



