WEST OXFORD SOCIETY. £07 



Wheat. Lewis Howe raised twenty-four bushels of bearded 

 •wheat on an acre of intervale ; a deep, rather light soil ; sometimes 

 flowed ; last year was plowed seven inches deep and planted to corn ; 

 a bushel and twelve quarts of seed was soaked, rolled iu plaster and 

 ashes, and sown broadcast the last of May ; no manure applied this 

 year ; harvested last of August, when rather green ; crop, twenty- 

 four bushels on an acre and half a square rod, by accurate measure- 

 ment. 



Rye. Moses M. Bennett grew twenty-one and one-fourth bushels 

 of winter rye on an acre of sandy loam, planted to corn in 1855 and 

 wheat in 1856 ; plowed in stubble nine inches, and sowed one bushel, 

 broadcast, first of September; cut it July 80th — not quite ripe; 

 expense, about $4; value, $l.l2g per bushel. 



Nathaniel Walker grew twenty and one-half bushels spring rye 

 on an acre of light sandy loam, of dark color, on which corn Avas 

 grown the year before; seed, one^bushel; sown broadcast, without 

 any previous preparation, 23d April ; land plowed six inches and 

 harrowed ; cut August 20th, when rather green. 



Thomas Mason grew summer rye on an acre of dark yellow sandy 

 loam which was in corn and potatoes last year. Crop "about 

 twenty-three bushels," 



EuTA Bag AS. Henry Walker grew these at the rate of five 

 hundred bushels per acre, on grass land yielding one and a half tons 

 of hay; plowed eight inches deep, and manured with sheep manure; 

 drills eighteen inches asunder. 



