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Second best sample of winter wheat ; Hiram F. Story, Milwaukee. Ame- 

 rican Muck Book. 



" This sample of wheat forwarded by myself for exhibition, was the 

 first crop taken from new ground, which was cleared in the month of 

 June, A. D. 1851, and ploughed the first week in July following, with 

 three yoke of oxen, and a heavy breaking plough. 



" The ground then remained untouched, until about the middle of 

 September following, when it was thoroughly harrowed, with one span 

 of horses. After Avhich the wheat was sown at the rate of two bushels 

 per acre, and the ground was well dragged. 



" The kind of soil is a mixture of black sand and clay. The wheat was 

 harvested the last week in July last. The yield per acre was thirty -two 

 bushels. I am unable to give an account of the entire expense. 



HiEAM F. Story." 



Best sample of spring wheat ; Peter Marlett, Milwaukee. American 

 Muck Book, and $1. 



" This spring wheat was raised in the town of Greenfield, Milwaukee 

 county. The soil was clay, with a slight mixture of sand and gravel, to 

 which no manure was applied. It was sown after corn. The ground 

 was plowed in the fall, and again in the spring. The wheat was 

 sown the 13th of May last, and dragged twice. It was cut the 15th of 

 August, and taken into the barn the 17th. I threshed a few bundles for 

 the mill during the first week of September, and had three bushels left, 

 of which this is a part. The remainder of the crop is not yet threshed ; 

 I think it will yield between twenty and twenty-five bushels per acre. I 

 weio-hed one-half bushel by measure, and it weighed by my steel-yards, 

 thirty-three pounds. 



" The expense of cultivation is as follows : 

 Ploufhing ground, two acres, with oxen, one and a half days, at fifty 



cents per day, team and hand $1 50 



Sowing and dragging the same . . . . . . 76 



Harvesting and taking into barn 3 00 



Cost of three bushels for seed, at sixty -two and one-half cents 1 88 



Total . ... . ^7 13 



Peter Marlett." 



