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was grown on the same ground. Plowed ten inches deep, and 

 manured with two hundred pounds of Peruvian Guano. The 

 seed was washed and then rolled in dry slacked lime,, and sowed 

 broadcast, two bushels to the acre, April 29th, and harvested 

 in Auo-ust, when it was somewhat hardened. Produce, nine- 

 teen and five-eiiihths bushels. 



Value of crop, . . . . . $45 00 



Expense of cultivation and harvesting, . . $10 00 



Net profit, ..... $35 00 

 Samuel Chadbouru produced a crop of ''black" oats, which 

 were grown on a loam, light and friable, about two feet deep, 

 of a dark color, containing stones of granite, large and small, 

 and underlaid by a hard and gravelly subsoil. It was plowed 

 nine inches deep; sowed May 8th, broadcast. The piece con- 

 tained two acres and forty-eight rods. Sowed two bushels and 

 six quarts of seed to the acre, and produced forty-one bushels 

 to the acre. They were harvested August 27th. On the whole 

 piece the produce was ninety-four bushels of oats, and four tons 

 of straw. 



Value of crop, ..... $37 60 

 Cost of crop, . . . . . §20 00 



Profit, . . . . . $17 00 



Peter Garcelon sowed one acre of wheat, on a soil about a 

 foot deep, of a light color, free from stone, granite formation 

 underlaid with a clay subsoil. It had been planted to potatoes, 

 and to corn the year before ; was plowed twice in the spring, 

 about a foot deep the first time, and about six inches the last; 

 manured with ten bushels of plaster, lime and ashes, mixed 

 together. The seed was washed in " salt pickle " one night, 

 and then rolled in the mixture of lime, plaster and ashes; 

 was sowed broadcast, five pecks to the acre. Harvested in 

 August, in rather a green state. Produce, sixteen bushels to 

 the acre. • 



Value of crop, ..... §36 00 

 Cost of producing crop, as stated, . . §6 00 



Profit, . . . . . §30 00 



