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MAINE STATE SOCIETZ. 



times harrowing with boj and horse. Harvested about the 20th 

 August, 51 bushels and 28 quarts of Avheat, wei^^hing 64 11-16 

 pounds to the bushel." 



Dr. 



Crop of Wheat. 



Cr. 



To plowing 1 1-2 days, 



Harrowing, 



Sowing, .... 



Other cultivation, 



Harvesting, 



Threshing and cleaning, 



1 7-8 bushels Seed, 



M.mure left in soil from former crop, 15 00 



Interest on Land . . . . 5 00 



S3 00 By 51 28-32 bushels . . $103 75 

 3 00 Two tons Htm w, ... 800 



25 1 Manure left in soil for future crops, 



1 50 



8 00 

 8 00 

 4 00 



$47 75 



estimated. 



Deduct cost, 



Profit, 



$71 50 



Reuben Hobbs of Harrison, Cumberland Co., says: 



" Mj crop consisting of forty bushels of 63 pounds to the bushel, 

 was grown on one acre. The soil upon which it grew was yellow 

 gravelly loam, formerly very rocky, about eighteen inches deep — 

 fine, light and friable. Sub-soil is yellowish, hard and gravelly. 

 First broken up to a depth of eight or nine inches in the spring of 

 1859 ; then harrowed thoroughly ; furrowed and dressed in the hill 

 with four cords hog manure made the previous fall and winter ; and 

 planted with corn, from which a crop of ninety bushels of ears were 

 raised. All sound corn. No top dressing being u.^ed. A cart- 

 load of pumpkins was also raised at the same time. About the 12th 

 of April, 1860, I carted on about three cords heap manure, made 

 the previous winter; spread it, and plowed it in four or five inches 

 deep ; sowed one and a-haU" bushels wheat, broadcast, after washing 

 it slightly, and drying it off in plaster. The seed used was ' Scotch 

 Fife,' and was harrowed .in lightly. The crop was reaped the 7th 

 of August, in a well ripened state ; bound up and got in the same 

 da}', and threshed by a machine about the 20th of August." 



Dr. 



Crop of Wheat. 



Cr. 



Ti' Plowing Todays, with two horses, $1 00 



Three cords barn yard manure, . 9 00 



Carting and applying the same, 1 



Harrowing, .... 1 



Sowing, ..... 



Harvesting and housing, . . 3 



Threshing and cleaning, . . 6 



1^ bushels seed, • . . . 3 



Manure left in soil from former crop, C 50 



Interest on land, at $20 per acre, 1 20 



00 

 12 

 00 

 12 

 00 

 50 

 00 



832 44 



By forty bushels, at $1,75 . $70 00 



One ton Straw, ... 4 00 



Manure loft in soil for future crops, 



estimated, .... 7 00 



Deduct cost, 



Profit, 



$81 00 

 32 li4 



$18 56 



Statement of Andrew W. Russell, of Howland, Penobscot Co. : 



" My crop, consisting of 187 bushels of 63 pounds to the bushel, 

 was grown on five acres forty rods, being at the rate of 37 126-315 

 bushels of 60 pounds to the acre. The soil upon which it grew was 



