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MAINE STATE SOCIETY. 



and threshing, as per schedule following, and the value of the grain 

 at my residence is seven shillings per bushel : 



Dr. 



To plowing once, 1^ days, 

 Harrowing and sowing, 

 Harvesting and housing, 

 Threshing and cleaning, 

 1| bushels seed. 

 Interest on land, 



Cj'oj) of Winter Rye. 



Cr. 



S5 00 

 2 00 



4 00 



5 00 

 2 05 

 1 20 



$19 25 



By 284 bushels at Vs., . . <133 05 



2500 lbs. straw from scythe reaping, 7 50 



Deduct cost. 



Profit, 



$40 55 

 19 25 



$21 30 



Oats. First premium to Benjamin R. Stevens of Unity, for 82 

 bushels on an acre. His statement is as follows : 



" My crop consisting of 246 bushels, was grown on three acres, 

 being at the rate of 82 bushels to the acre. The soil upon which it 

 grew was light and stony ; planted to corn last year ; manured at 

 the rate of twenty-five loads to the acre — one-half spread, the other 

 half in the hill. The ground was seeded down this year to herds- 

 grass and clover. There were sowed three bushels seed per acre. 

 The oats grew very stout ; some were measured at the length of five 

 feet eleven inches. There was one acre threshed out, it being ex- 

 actly measured, and yielded 82| bushels of measured oats, as we 

 ihad not time to thresh the rest." 



Second premium to Thos. J. Twycross, for 50 bushels per acre. 



No premium was ofiered on wheat. One statement is found from 

 John Titcomb, Jr. of Farmington, of a crop of Canada club wheat, 

 on a deep loam of 24| bushels per acre. 



Forage. Statements are found of 6,800 pounds herdsgrass and 

 clover on one acre ; of 8 tons interval hay on an acre, and of 4 tons 

 and 400 pounds clover upon an acre, by E. F. Crane of Kenduskeag. 



Also, one of John C. Clements, of 4 tons of clover upon one acre, 

 of clayey loam ; plowed and planted to potatoes, without manure : 

 plowed in spring of '58, eight inches deep, and sown with barley 

 and eight pounds Vermont clover, and eight quarts herdsgrass and 

 two pounds white' clover per acre. No manure except the wash 

 from the highway which passes for twenty-seven rods on one side of 

 the field. 



Root Crop^. 

 The Committee on Root Crops report: — That there were but nine 

 entries for the Society's premiums in this class, and in but two cases 



