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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



manure. Wheat sown on turned-in clover, or on good land, 

 well manured and cultivated the previous year with potatoes, 

 yields a fair return. Strong manure, applied directly to wheat, 

 causes the stalk to grow rank and tender, and to be easily 

 blasted. Numerous instances of success, the present year, 

 justify the belief that our farmers will turn their attention 

 more and more to this crop. 



Statement of A. L. Smith. 



The field of wheat which I enter for premium contains one 

 half acre by measurement. Planted with corn last year, and 

 manured with a shovelful of compost in the hill — all the manure 

 the field has had for twenty years. Soil, a gravelly loam. The 

 28th of April, I ploughed the land seven inches deep. On the 

 29th, sowed one bushel and two quarts of Scotch Fife wheat. 

 Before harrowing, I spread four bushels of ashes and one 

 bushel of air-slacked lime, which were harrowed in with the 

 wheat. It was harvested the first week in August, and 

 produced nine bushels and two quarts. The seed was not 

 soaked in any preparation. The field was free from rust and 

 gmut during the season. The kernel plump and sound. 



Crop : — 



Nine bushels and two quarts of wheat, 

 Straw, 



$9 50 



$12 62 



Dover, November 10, 1855, 



