76 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



WHEAT. 

 FRANKLIN. 



[Statement of Miron Brown, Sunderland.] 



The quantity of ground on which this crop was raised is 

 two acres. It was in grass in 1875. In 1876 about sixteen 

 cords of barnyard-manure were used on the whole piece, 

 which was ploughed six to eight inches deep ; and the crop 

 for that year was tobacco. Preparatory to sowing, the land 

 was cultivated twice with wheel-harrow ; and Sept. 15 two 

 bushels per acre of white wheat were sown broadcast, and 

 harrowed in with a common harrow. The crop was harvested 

 July 25, cut with a common cradle, and bound in sheaves 

 the usual way. 



Mr. Brown says, " I had wheat on these two acres in 1873 : 

 at that time I applied a hundred and fifty bushels good un- 

 slacked lime, and harvested sixty bushels of wheat. My 

 opinion is, that the lime did not benefit that crop, but has 

 been of great service to every crop since ; and the present 

 wheat-crop owes a good deal to that lime." Soil a clay loam. 



Cb. 



By ninety bushels wheat from two acres . . . ^135 00 

 Three tons of straw . . . ' . . . 30 00 



S165 00 



Db. 



To ploughing, and other preparation . . . . $4 00 



Seed, and planting two acres 12 00 



Harvesting 20 00 



36 00 



Profit ^129 00 



