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Wheat. 



Samuel Gray of Harrison, testifies to a crop of " Blue Straw " 

 <5r "Banner" wheat grown on a sandy loam, friable, of a dark 

 color, with an open, pervious subsoil. The land has previously 

 to this crop had common cultivation, and the year before 

 had a crop of corn raised upon it. The present year it had 

 been plowed nine inches deep, and ten loads of stable manure 

 were applied previous to sowing the seed. On the first of Oc- 

 tober sowed broadcast thirty-four quarts of wheat without any 

 previous preparation. The crop had no after culture or appli- 

 cation. On July 25th harvested twenty-five busliels of wheat 

 and one and a half tons of straw to the acre. The land on 

 which the wheat was raised was on a hill side, and was consid- 

 erably washed by the fall and spring rains. He is of the opin- 

 ion that he could have harvested fifteen bushels to half an acre, 

 if the land was not washed by the rain. 

 Expense of raising and harvesting, $23. 

 Value of wheat at residence, $2.25 per bushel. 

 Daniel Lancaster certifies to a crop of Malaga wheat grown 

 on a clay loam of a dark color. The soil was broken in the 

 fall, and planted with corn in spring of the previous year and 

 cultivated on an even surface. When plowed for wheat it was 

 allowed to lie for a few days, and was then thoroughly har- 

 rowed ; and after sowing, it was harrowed twice, and rolled 

 with a light roller. Sowed on the 7th of May. The wheat was 

 soaked in the strongest pickle, and dried off with slacked lime, 

 and allowed to remain twenty hours before sowing. The wheat 

 was sowed broadcast, two and a half bushels to an acre. On 

 the 15th of Aug., when full in the milk, the grain was harvested 

 — twenty-two and a half bushels of sixty pounds to the bushel 

 per acre. The straw was one and a half tons after thrashing. 



Expense. 



Return. 



Plowing, harrowing, roll- Twenty-two and a half 



ing and sowing, $4 50 bushels at $2, $45 00 



Seed and preparation, 4 50 Straw, 6 00 



Baking with horse rake, 



&G., 



Thrashing, &c., 



$51 00 



