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about the last of July, and threshed with flails the early part of 

 September. The Scotch fife was the variety sown. 



Value of crop : — 

 24 bushels, 20 quarts, .... 

 I ton of straw, $6.50, .... 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing and sowing, $2, seed 13.75, . 

 300 lbs. of guano, at 13.05 per cwt.. 

 Harvesting $2, threshing .14.50, 



Profit, $32 72 



Hadley, September 11, 1856. 



FRANKLIN. 



Statement of H. W. Cushman. 



I claim a premium for an acre of winter wheat, and present 

 the following statement respecting its cultivation : — 



Last year, the land was cultivated with Indian corn, and pro- 

 duced a middling crop. The land is gravelly loam and rather 

 dry. I put on last year about twenty loads of green manure 

 from the barnyard, ploughed it in, and put ashes and plaster in 

 the hill. After the corn was taken off I ploughed it twice, and 

 sowed 1| bushels of white flint wheat the latter part of Septem- 

 ber. The wheat was soaked twelve hours in a weak brine, and 

 rolled in plaster of Paris and ashes when sown. It was har- 

 rowed and rolled down with a roller. 



The 25th of April, I sowed 100 lbs. of Peruvian guano on one 

 half of the acre of wheat. 



It was harvested the last of July. The product was 221 

 bushels of clean wheat, weighing 60 lbs. to the bushel. The 

 expenses of cultivation were as follows : — 



Ploughing twice, $3 00 



Sowing, harrowing and rolling, . . . 1 50 

 If bushels seed, 5 68 



