148 EAST SOMERSET SOCIETY. 



May 25th, and oats May 22cl. Harvested the last week in 

 August. Produce, fourteen bushels of wheat and fifty-four 

 bushels of oats. "Wheat weighed 840 pounds, and the oats 

 1,640 pounds. 



Wheat : plowing and harrowing, . . . $4 00 



Harvesting, , . . . . 2 00 



Threshing, . . . . . 3 OO 



Seed, . . . . . . 3 00 



14 bushels wheat, $2.00 per bushel, $28 00 



Profit, 



Oats : ploughing and harrowing, . 



Harvesting, ..... 

 Threshing, ..... 



54 bushels oats, 37J cts. per bushel, $20 25 



Profit, ..... 



$20 25 



Ellis Fish entered for premium on wheat, oats, onions, car- 

 rots and turnips, and obtained the first on wheat, the second 

 on oats, and the second on onions. The wheat grew on a 

 sandy loam, the oats on a clay loam, and the roots on a yellow 

 loam. His farm is generally a clay loam, but ^icre is a sandy 

 ridge, commonly termed a " horse back," running through it. 

 What land he cultivates is mostly free from stones. All the 

 ground was plowed about eight inches deep, and about twelve 

 cords of manure to tlie acre was applied to that where the 

 roots grew. The wheat was of the "Black Sea" variety; the 

 oats were from the Patent Office, and said to have been raised 

 by Lieut. Hunter of Virginia, all sown broadcast. Wheat sown 

 May 5th, and oats May 8th, and harvested in August. Wheat 

 sowed two bushels per acre, and oats four bushels. Onions 

 sowed in drills fourteen inches apart, and plants four inches; 

 carrots, drills eighteen inches, plants two inches apart; turnips 

 twenty-four inches, in drills, and plants eight inches apart ; 

 onions sowed April 15th; the carrots and turnips June 2d, and 



