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WEST OXFORD SOCIETY. 



Plowed again the present spring, and seeded with one and one-half 

 bushels bald wheat. Tlie weevil worked bad. I should probably 

 have got 40 bushels if the weevil had not got into it. 



Statement of Mark F. William. 



My crop, consisting of 24f busliels of wheat, was grown on one 

 acre of land. The soil upon which it grew was planted to corn last 

 year, with 16 cartloads of manure ; plowed this spring ; sowed the 

 10th of May, 1| bushels seed; harvested about the 20th of August. 



The field is a hard, stony soil, plowed eight inches deep. The 



cost of growing the same and its value are as follows 



Dr. 



Plowing, 



Harvesting, 



Threshing, 



Ij buiihels seed, 



Manure left from forme: 



Interest on land. 



Cr. 



Crop of Wheat. 



$3 00 1 244 bushels at $2. . . $49 50 



2 00 'Fodder, . . . 5 00 



. Manure left in soil for future crop, 



estimated, . . . 2 00 



crop. 



6 00 

 3 00 

 5 00 

 1 50 



$20 50 



Deduct cost. 

 Profit, 



51 50 

 20 50 



$36 00 



Statement of James Walker. 



My crop, consisting of 20 bushels of 58 pounds to the bushel, 

 was grown on one acre. The soil on which it was grown was 

 rocky loam, of a dark color, rather fine. Depth of soil, two feet, 

 resting on a hard, gravelly subsoil. No manure was applied to the 

 land the present season, for the benefit of this crop. Tlie variety 

 sowed is called the Scotch Fyfe wheat. The cost of growing the 

 same and its value are as follows : 



Dp. 



Crop of Wheat. 



$7 25 



Profit, 



Cr. 



$!40 00 

 3 00 



43 00 

 7 25 



$35 75 



Statement of James Walker. 



My crop consisting of 23| bushels of spring wheat, was raised 

 on one acre. The soil upon which it grew was a chocolate colored, 

 stony loam, fine, resting on a hard, gravelly subsoil, about 2^ feet 

 from the surface. Said land was in corn, the i)revious year, it 

 having been manured for that crop by 8 cords of barnyard manure 

 to the acre. No manure was applied to the wheat crop this year. 

 Plowed once, third day of May, 1859. Sowed May "Itli, five pecks 

 to the acre, of the Scotch Fyfe variety, washed in brine and dried 

 with ashes before sowing. ITarvestod the 18th of August. The 

 cost of growing the same and its value are as follows : 



