68 OXFORD COUNTY SOCIETY. 



" My crop consisting of 70 bushels of 58 pounds to the bushel, 

 ■was grown on 2 acres 105 rods, being at the rate of 26| bushels to 

 the aci'c. The soil upon which it grow was a yellow loam about 

 18 inches deep, under which is an impervious subsoil. It is on an 

 oval ridge of land dry enough to plow any time after the ground is 

 settled in the spring. Some few large granite rocks, not many 

 small stones. The land had been in grass 12 years ; bore a light 

 burden of June grass for four or five of the last years it was mowed. 

 In 1856 it was broken up about T inches deep, the latter part of 

 August. In 1857 it was planted with potatoes without any dress- 

 ing, except a table spoonful of ashes and plaster in the hill, two 

 parts of the former to one of the latter. In the spring of 1858, I 

 spread on 20 loads of green manure to the acre, of about 35 bushels 

 to the load, and 8 loads of well rotted barnyard manure, and hog 

 manure of about equal proportions in the hill, and planted to corn. 

 No manure was applied last spring, except 6 loads of very light 

 manure on three-fourths of an acre of the part that was not quite 

 so well manured the previous year. The wheat sown, is called 

 about here, the red Turke}' — is a bearded wheat. It was sown the 

 9th day of May, 1| bushels to the acre ; was washed in a strong 

 brine of salt and water and lime to dry it ; was harvested the lat- 

 ter part of August, by mowing and rakhig. The cost of growing 

 the same and its value are as follows : 



Dr. Croj) of Wheat. Cr. 



To plowing once, 2 days, . $4 00 | By 70 bushels, at $1.34, . $93 80 



Harrowing and rolling, . 2 00 14 tons straw, $3, . . 12 00 



Sowing, . . . . 1 00 



Harvesting, . . . 8 00 



Threshing and cleaning, . 12 00 



4 bushels seed, . . 6 00 



Mauuieleft in soil from former crop, 26 00 



Interest on land, . . 3 00 



$62 00 



Manure left in soil for future crops, 

 estimated, . . . 13 00 



118 80 

 Deduct cost, . . . C2 00 



Profit, . . . $5C 80 



First premium on potatoes, to J. C. Marble of Paris, whose state- 

 ment is as follows : 



" ]\[y crop, consisting of 211 J bushels, was grown on \ acre and 

 6 rods, being at the rate of about 400 bushels to the acre. The 

 soil upon winch it grew was deep, light loam, on ground that had 

 been seeded four years ; the hay crop last year was redtop and June 

 grass ; the ground was broken up with one yoke of 7 feet cattle, 

 without a driver, and the manure spread on and plowed in; the 

 ground was plowed from 8 to 10 inches deep ; planted May 16th, 

 and plastered in the hill ; the manure was a mixture, with some 

 muck, made last winter. Harvested and put in the cellar Septem- 

 ber 27 and 28." 



Second premium, to Levi Gorham of Norway, for 172 bushels 



Jackson potatoes per acre, on light sandy loam ; broken in '58 and 



sown to oats. In 1859, plowed; and 3| cords manure spread on the 



furrows and harrowed in. 



