172 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Deduct one-half of the expense of manure for 

 the better condition of land after the crop 

 was taken off, $10 00 



$33 25 



Profit, $59 GO 



I hereby certify that all the above statements are correct. 



Anthony Kearns. 



HAMPDEN. 



Statement of H. A. Fuller. 



The acre of oats of which I showed a sample, was raised by 

 me the past season at North Brook ; soil, sandy loam ; subsoil, 

 clay. In the spring of 1858, forty-one horse cart loads of barn 

 or stable manure from a cellar, were ploughed under, and 

 planted with corn. In April, 1859, it was ploughed nine 

 inches deep, and twelve bushels of slacked lime spread evenly 

 over the furrows and thoroughly harrowed. I sowed four 

 bushels of common oats weighing twenty-five pounds to the 

 bushel ; harrowed well, picked the corn stalks and stubble 

 off the surface, and rolled with a heavy roller. When the 

 time came for harvesting, we found them badly tangled; 

 the largest piece standing was fifteen by twenty feet in one 

 place, which we cut with ,a sickle, and dried and threshed 

 carefully. We had twenty-two and one-half quarts, weighing 

 twenty-two and one-half pounds of oats, from thirty-two and 

 three-fourths pounds of straw. Thinking this was a large 

 crop, and as we could not thresh at present the whole crop, we 

 threshed twenty sheaves -as they came from the mow, and 

 measured sixty quarts, weighing fifty-eight and three-fourths 

 pounds ; the straw weighed eighty-nine pounds, and from this 

 we make the estimate. 



Value of 100 bushels oats at 60 cents, 

 Two and a half tons straw at $7, 



Ploughing, ...... 



Lime, ....... 



Harrowing, .....'. 



