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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Value of crop : — 

 1,022 pounds of brush, at 9|^ cts., 



S6^ bushels of seed, at 67 cts. per bushel. 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing, harrowing, planting and hoeing, 

 12 loads of manure, .... 



100 pounds of super-phosphate. 

 Harvesting, scraping, and cleaning seed, 

 Interest on land, ..... 



Net profit, .... 



SUNDEHLAND, NoV. 14, 1855. 



$97 09 

 57 95 



$155 04 



$47 00 

 $108 04 



WHEAT. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Statement of Amoi'y Davidson. 



Tlie acre of land on which my wheat was raised is a gravelly, 

 or rather cobbly loam. It was planted two years previous, the 

 first year on the sod, and manured in the hill with a small 

 shovelful of compost from my barnyard. Last year I ploughed 

 in twenty-four cart-loads of green manure from my barn cellar, 

 and manured in the hill the same as the year before. This 

 year»I washed my seed and let it soak twenty-four hours, then 

 stirred in slacked lime and plaster to separate it, and sowed two 

 bushels of the coffee wheat to the acre, and harrowed it in 

 thoroughly, bushed and rolled the ground down jQat and 

 smooth. After it was up about four inches high, I sowed on 

 three hundred pounds of plaster. I harvested it the middle 

 of August, and had thirty-two and three-fourths bushels to the 

 acre by measure, or a fraction over thirty-four by weight, 

 which was sixty-two and a half pounds to the bushel. It was 

 cut before the straw was turned fully yellow. My seed cost me 



