6Q MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



the hill, of the eight-rowed yellow variety ; used a plough culti- 

 vator three times, and hand-hoed each time ; cut up and stooked 

 about the 16th September ; husked the 20th October. 



I cut and stook my corn, thereby saving twenty-five per cent, 

 of labor, compared with the old-fashioned way of topping corn, 

 or " cutting stalks," besides saving the stover in a good condition 

 for fodder, my stock eating the whole of it. 



Cost of ploughing and ather preparation, 



of seed and planting, ..... 



of cultivating, &c, ...... 



of harvesting and husking, .... 



Value of manure, ....... 



$71 00 



Statement of Cyrus Kilburn. 



Wheat. — The land on which I raised my wheat was loamy 

 with a clayey subsoil. In 1865 the crop was Indian corn, 

 manured with thirty-five loads of compost to the acre ; previous 

 to that it was in grass. October 1st of that year it was ploughed 

 seven inches deep. About the fifth of that month, after har- 

 rowing the land, I sowed two bushels of blue-stem winter 

 wheat. The latter part of July the crop was harvested, the 

 yield being twenty-two bushels to the acre, and one ton of straw. 

 It was not sowed early enough by a month on account of the 

 extreme drought. When it is well floured it is as good as the 

 best St. Louis flour. 



Cost of ploughing and preparing, .... 

 of seed and sowing, ..... 



of harvesting, ....... 



$25 00 



Statement of Luther Page. 

 Rye. — The soil on which I raised my rye is a clayey bottom 

 with a black loam. For the two previous years it had grown 

 corn, and was manured with thirty-two loads from my barn 

 cellar. The grain was sowed the last of September with one 

 and a quarter bushels to the acre, after ploughing once six 

 inches deep. The land for the previous nineteen or twenty 



