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one-half bushels of wheat and two and one-half tons of straw ; cost 

 of culture, ^12 50. 



Hall Bagley obtained the second premium on one acre of wheat 

 grown on a light loam upon which corn had been raised the previous 

 year ; the ground was plowed six inches deep, and two bushels of 

 white bald wheat was sown after having been washed and dried with 

 lime ; yield, sixteen and one-half l^ushels per acre. 



Thomas B. Keniston obtained the first premium on one-half acre 

 of bearded Finsen wheat, sown broadcast, on a clay loam, on which 

 corn had been raised the previous year ; plowed eight inches deep 

 and applied three cords of barn-yard manure before harrowing; 

 two bushels of seed were used to the acre ; yield, nineteen bushels 

 per acre ; cost of culture, $12.50 for one-half acre. 



Oats. E. F. Crane of Kenduskeag, obtained the first premium 

 on oats grown on one acre of clayey loam ; the land had been in 

 grass for many years ; plowed in the spring, about eight inches deep 

 and spread on two and one-half cords of stable manure ; the seed 

 was sown broadcast on the 25th of May, at the rate of three bushels 

 of seed to the acre ; yield, seventy-two bushels of thirty-one pounds 

 to the bushel ; cost of culture, $11.25. 



Hall Bagley of Charleston, obtained the second premium on oats 

 grown on one acre light loam on which beang had been raised the 

 year before ; plowed this spring, six inches deep, and harrowed ; no 

 manure applied ; five bushels of seed were used to the acre ; yield, 

 sixty bushels to the acre. 



Barley. Matthew Bitchie of East Corinth, applied for preraiunj 

 on a crop of barley which was sown on one and one-half acres dark 

 colored loam which is light and friable and underlaid by a slaty 

 subsoil ; the ground was planted to corn and potatoes the previous 

 year ; the seed was the two rowed variety ; sowed two and one-half 

 bushels on the 20th of May, and harvested the last of August. 



Cost of crop. 



|15 09 



Value of crop. 

 Barley, |34 17 



Straw, 8 00 



$42 17 

 15 GO 



Profit, p.1 17 



