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CUMBERLAND COUNTY SOCIETY. 



with corn, and produced about 50 or 60 bushels, about ten loads of 

 old barnyard manure having been put into the hills. This 3'ear 

 plo^Yed and harrowed it in May ; sowed 1| bushels of oats and rolled 

 it, and produced the above crop. No manure of any kind was 

 applied last spring. Common oats were used for seed without any 

 previous preparation. They were mowed about the 10th of August, 

 raked and bunched at night, and got in on the afternoon of the next 

 day, and were threshed by machine. 



Dr. 



Crop of Oats. 



Cr. 



Plowing once, 1 day, 

 Harrowing and rolling, 

 ' Sowing, . 

 Harvesting, 

 Threshing and cleaning, . 3 75 



I5 bushels seed, . . 75 



Manure left in soil from former crop, 24 00 

 Interest on land, . . 3 00 



$2 00 ! 56 bushels, . . . $28 00 



1 00 U tons straw, . . . 7 50 



12 j Manure left in soil for future crops, 

 1 25 estimated at . . . 16 00 



$35 87 



Deduct cost, 



Profit, 



$51 50 

 35 77 



$15 63 



William Marean^s Statement. 



My crop of oats, consisting of 50 bushels of 33 pounds to the 

 bushel, was grown on one acre of land. The soil on which it grew, 

 •was deep yellow loam, about twelve inches deep to subsoil, which is 

 yellow, dry and hard, and rocky, as well as the soil which is friable. 



In the spring of 1858, I spread on eight loads of old barnyard 

 manure, and broke it up, and had a good crop of corn. In 1859, 

 used eight loads of manure — spread on. Sowed in May, about three 



bushels of common oats. 

 Dr. 



Plowing once, 1 day, 



2 j cords barnyard manure. 

 Carting and applying same, 

 Harrowing, 

 Sowing, ... 25 

 Harvesting and housing, . 2 00 

 Husking, threshing and cleaning, 4 OJ 



3 bushels seed, . . . 1 50 

 Manure left iji soil from former crop, 4 00 

 Interest on land, . . 1 50 



■ $28 75 



Harvested middle of August. 



Crop of Oats. 



Cr. 



$3 00 50 bushels, . . . $25 00 



10 00 3 tons straw, . . . 15 00 



1 50 Manure left in soil for future crops, 



1 00 , estimated at . . . 8 00 



Deduct cost, 



Profit, 



$48 00 

 28 75 



$19 25 



Peas. Peas were presented by Samuel Swett, J. A. Waterman, 

 S. L. Stephenson and E. T. Smith, all of Gorham. Ko statements 

 of methods, or cost of cultivation, or profits of crop were presented 

 by either of the competitors, except a partial one by Mr. Smith, as 

 appears below. And this failing in several particulars to comply 

 with the rules of the Society, to wit : breadth of land, items of cost, 

 and certificate of oath, we cannot award the premium, but recom- 



