WHEAT. 



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three dollars per bushel, and I reckon the same price on the 

 crop, as I had promised for seed, for another year, all I have to 

 spare, at the same price, before it was harvested. 



Value of crop : — 

 34 bushels of wheat, 

 1 ton of straw. 



Balance in favor of crop, 



2 00 



8 00 



. $86 70 

 Amory Davidson. 



Sterling, 1855. 



NORFOLK. , 



From the Report of the Committee on Grain Crops. 



The season was generally considered favorable to small 

 grains ; and from several parts of the county we hear of good 

 crops, and have seen many fields apparently equal to any that 

 were entered for premiums. The high price of bread stuffs 

 has induced many to try the cultivation of wheat, and they 

 have found it profitable. From twenty to twenty-five bushels 

 have been grown upon an acre, with but little more trouble or 

 expense than would have been incurred for a crop of rye. The 

 general prejudice against the cultivation of wheat begins to 

 wear out, where it is found that failures do not result from our 

 climate, nor from the fact that our lands have been long under 

 the plough, but mainly from over-stimulation with rank 



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