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CUMBERLAND COUNTY SOCIETY. 



The berry of the sample exhibited was good ; but it was consid- 

 erably mixed with oats and barley. 



William MarearCs Statement. 



My crop of wheat, consisting of 22i bushels, was grown on one 

 acre. The soil on which it grew, was dry, yellowish loam, about a 

 foot deep to the subsoil, which is dry, yellow and hard ; soil, mellow 

 and stony. It was broken up in 1858, after about ten cartloads 

 of old manure had been spread on and harrowed in, planted to corn ; 

 had a good crop. Last spring it was spread with ten loads of old 

 barnyard manure, plowed and harrowed. Sowed common summer 

 wheat — used dry seed. Crop harvested about August 15th, and 

 threshed about one month later. 



Dr. 



Plowing once, § day, 



24 cords barn yard manure, 



Carting and applying same, 



Harrowing, 



Sowing, 



Harvesting and housing. 



Threshing and cleaning, 



1 bushel of seed. 



Manure left in soil from forme 



Interest on land. 



Crop of Wheat. 



Cr. 



$2 00 224 bushels, at $2.00, .' 

 2h tons straw, . 



Manure left in the soil for future 

 crops, estimated at 



Deduct cost. 



Profit, 



$36 75 



Barley. Two lots of barley were exhibited; one by Charles 

 Thompson of Standish, the other by Ebenezer Hawkes of Windham. 

 The berry of the former — six rowed variety — was good ; the latter 

 — two rowed variety — was very good. 



Mr. Thompson's statements, as appears below, are explicit, and 

 we award to him the first premium." 



Mr. Hawkes has failed to give us the cost of his crop, and we 

 cannot, therefore, well judge of the profit of his experiment, but 

 recommend a gratuity. 



Charles Thompson's Statement. 



llj crop of barley, consisting of 34 bushels of 45 pounds to the 

 bushel,*was grown on 97 square rods, being at the rate of 56i bush- 

 els to the acre. The soil upon which it grew was a dark mellow 

 loam, about ten inches deep over the subsoil and not very stony — 

 manv of the stones having been removed from the soil. The sub- 

 soil is yellow, fine and generally dry. 



The land was broken up in the fall of 1856, planted with corn 

 and potatoes in 1857, and in 1858 with a crop of corn. About two 



