No. 85.J 165 



MR. Wright's statement. 



William Wright, of Vernon — Soil, gravel ; previous crop. Barley. 

 Well plowed,, with six inches depth of furrow ; two bushels seed per 

 acre, sowed the first of September. Thirty-six busheL-; and 28 lbs. 

 per acre. 



Value of grain at $1, $36 .28 



Straw 2.00 



$38.28 

 Expense ol raising crop 25 . 29 



Nett profit $13.99 



II. SPRING WHEAT. 



MR. HAMBLETOn's STATEMENT. 



Statement of Wm. Hambleton, of East Hamburgh, to the Erie 

 County Agricultural Society, relative to a crop of spring wheat, 

 yielding 36 bushels per acre : 



The land is a sandy loam, with a slight sprinkling of gravel ; it 

 was plowed once only, and that about the 10th of April, and sowed 

 at the rate of 2k bushels to the acre, on the 15th day of the same 

 month ; the seed soaked one night in brine, and was then rolled in 

 plaster, and sowed immediately. It was harrowed both ways twice 

 in a place, with a twenty-seven toothed harrow, which so completely 

 pulverized the soil that it was equal in appearance to first-rate garden 

 mold, which I think is very essential to the growth of any grain 

 crop. 



The first week in August, we measured off one acre from a piece 

 that contained a little over two ; we cut it with a cradle and put it 

 in the barn by itself, and there it remained until a few days ago, 

 when we threshed it ; it was considerably eaten by rats and mice, 

 which lessened the amount. We cleaned and measured, from the 

 growth of said acre, 36 bushels of such wheat as I here present, 

 with the exception of one and a half bushels which was taken from 

 the tailings, threshed and cleaned over again, which is not quite as 

 clear from oats and whitecaps as the sample here presented ; besides 

 a full barrel of screenings of the fragments, left by rats and mice. 

 The preceding crop was potatoes, on a green-sward of clover and 

 timothy, of three years lay. The land has been manured twice ; nine 

 years ago, it received at the rate of about twenty-five two horse wag- 

 on loads of common barn-yard manure per acre, and then again on 

 the preceding potatoe crop, about the same kind and quantity of 

 manure. 



^ Expenses. 



Interest on land at $40 per acre, $2 . 80 



Plowing, hand and team half a day, 1 .00 



