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plied the present season. Ground plowed Nov., 1859 ; harrowed 

 the 14th and 16th of April; sown, broadcast, 17th of April. The 

 wheat was washed in soap suds — 3 quarts of dry slaked lime and 

 15 lbs. of plaster to the bushel, well mixed with it. The quantity 

 of seed 1 3-4 bushels to the acre. Kind of seed, Canada Club. 

 Harvested from the 3d to 12th of August. 



Dr. Crop of Wheat. Or. 



To plowing once, . . . §10 00 , By 131 11-32 bushel?, at 10s, . $218 40 



Harrowing and rolling, . . 7 50 4i tons straw, at $3, . . . 13 50 



Sowing and washing, . . . 1 50 Manure left in soil for future crops. 



Harvesting, . . . . 13 00 i estimated at . . . . 16 50 



Housing and stacking, . . 3 00 



7| bushels seed, . . . . 15 00 | $248 40 

 Manure left in soil from former crop, 33 00 , Deduct cost, .... 100 00 



Interest on land, . . . 12 00 



Threshing, . . • . 15 00 



$100 00 



Profit, .... $148 00 



Statement of Lewis Davis of Readfield, Kennebec County, on 



Winter Wheat : 



"My crop, consisting of 39 bushels of 63 pounds to the bushel? 

 was grown on 1 acre 20 rods, being at the rate of about 35 bushels 

 to the acre. The soil upon which it grew was a clayey loam, broke 

 up about the 10th of May, 1859, 9 inches deep. I spread upon 

 the grass about 3 cords of green manure on a part of it and turned 

 it under, and when I planted my corn, about the 15th of May, I 

 spread about 3 cords of compost manure upon the part that had not 

 been manured, and cultivated in. I then furrowed it deep, and 

 manured it with one shovel full of hog manure in hill ; covered the 

 manure before dropping the corn and potatoes ; hoed it three times, 

 dug my potatoes, which grew upon 60 square rods, and sowed wheat 

 the 9th of Sept. Cut up my corn Sept. 14th, and carted it off, 

 and sowed the wheat Sept. 17th. Ploughed the corn ground with 

 a single horse and small plough, sowed wheat, cultivated it in, and 

 then harrowed the ground, it being 120 square rods, or 3-4 of an 

 acre, upon which I raised a good crop of corn. Clayey loam and 

 no stones ; upon some parts of it I turned up some clay, upon other 

 parts black soil ; about ten inches to the clay. I cut about a ton of 

 hay to the acre the year before I broke it up ; the crop raised before 

 the wheat was corn upon 120 rods, and potatoes upon 60 rods. The 

 manure upon the corn ground as stated above ; the potato ground 

 was manured in the hill with green manure. Corn planted May 

 15th and 17th: potatoes planted April 29th. The corn plantedwas 

 the Dutton twelve-rowed. The wheat sowed was the Banner, or 

 the white-blue stem, at the rate of two bushels to the acre, washed 

 and mixed with plaster, and two bushels of salt to the acre. The 

 wheat was reaped about the 2Uth of July, when it was quite green, 

 bound up, stood up in bunches, about a dozen small bundles to- 

 gether, and capped until it was dry. It was threshed with a flail. 



