168 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



Statement of Theophilus P. Huntington. 



My crop of wheat, which is entered for a premium, grew on 

 one acre and about ninety-five or one hundred rods. This 

 ground produced a light crop of clover in 1856. It was mown 

 twice, and the next year, 1857, scarcely a spear was on the 

 field, and there was no grass worth the harvesting. In 1858, 

 50 one-horse loads of green manure were ploughed in, and 



20 loads of rotten manure harrowed in. The ground was then 

 planted with potatoes, a handful of plaster and ashes being 

 applied to each hill. About the 20th of April, 1859, the land 

 was ploughed and sown with 2^- bushels of Scotch pipe wheat, 

 and well harrowed, (grass seed was afterwards rolled in.) The 

 crop was harvested the 11th of August, and threshed in Sep- 

 tember, by hand. The produce was 41 bushels of wheat, and 

 1] tons of straw. 



My account with the crop stands as follows : — 



41 bushels of wheat, weighing 61 pounds to 

 the bushel, ....... 



1| tons of straw, ...... 



Ploughing, sowing and harvesting, . 



21 bushels seed, ...... 



Harvesting, $3, and threshing and cleaning, 



tjpT .50, ....... 



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$71 00 



HAMPDEN. 



Statement of Dr. L. Long-. 



The ground upon which I raised my wheat measures 169 

 rods ; soil, a loam — having been in cultivation four years. The 

 wheat crop followed cabbage, witli the exception of a strip 

 about one rod in width, which was preceded by a potato crop. 

 This could be distinguished throughout the season as inferior 

 to that following cabbage. The same was observed in the crop 



