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■west, or any wliere else, after material for our bread ; this is 

 double the average amount per acre, raised south or west, and 

 is of a better quality. It is not quite as white, but a pound of 

 the flour will make more bread »than either the southern or 

 western flour. It is hoped that after seeing what has been done, 

 others will do likewise. 



Peter Harwood, Chairman. 



Statement of Edward P. Haynes. 



The land on which my wheat was raised is a clayey loam ; 

 it was in potatoes last year, yielding 308 bushels of the large 

 Woods potatoes, so called, without any manure, except a small 

 handful of plaster in the hill. This spring, I put on twenty 

 loads of compost made by stabling my cows nights, last fall ; 

 ploughed the land twice, ploughing in the manure the last time ; 

 sowed two bushels of red flint wheat, that had been soaked in a 

 preparation of air slacked lime and salt, for twenty-four hours. 

 It was sown April 25th, and harvested August 11th and 12tli. 



Expenses of crop : — 

 Ploughing, . 

 Harrowing, . 

 Sowing seed and rolling. 

 Half of manure to crop. 

 Seed, .... 

 Threshing, . 

 Interest on land, at $50 per acre. 



Value of crop : — 

 29 bushels of wheat, at 12.50, 

 Straw, estimated at 



Deduct expense, 

 Balance in favor of crop, 

 Barre, September 15, 1856. 



180 50 

 26 62 



$53 88 



