WHEAT. 191 



Cost of laud rent, $10 00 



$17 00 



Balance in favor of crop, . . . . $21 00 

 Cost per bushel, seventy-nine cents. 



I consider tlic turnips paid the expense of ploughing the 

 land, and the manure used, and I have not included them in the 

 account. 



BERKSHIRE. 



Frojn the Report of the Committee. 



Mr. Baldwin, of Egremont, had two acres of blue stem (win- 

 ter) wheat, sown on pasture land, ploughed six inches deep, 1st 

 of July, subsequently ploughed three times and harrowed three ; 

 two and a half bushels seed to the acre, soaked twelve hours 

 in brine, then rolled in lime. Sowed 10th of September. No 

 manure. 



Mr. Curtis, of Great Barrington, had four acres, sown on 

 oat stubble, light plain land, ploughed once — twelve loads 

 coarse manure harrowed in. Two bushels blue stem sown to 

 the acre, without any preparation, September 6. An acre of 

 this wheat was threshed, and yielded 2,554 pounds of most 

 beautiful wheat. 



Mr. Laird, of Great Barrington, had five acres, directly 

 south of the Van Deusenville Furnace. Ground well sprinkled 

 with quartz boulders. We saw this in the swarth, but it ap- 

 peared to U3 very heavy. It was threshed and sold for seed, 

 and is reported to have fallen but a few pounds short of forty 

 bushels to the acre. 



It was the blue stem, sown with fourteen loads manure to 

 the acre, 1st of September. Seed soaked in brine. 



The blue stem wheat was brought to this county four years 

 ago, by 0. Curtiss, of Sheffield, and has proved very valuable. 

 We examined very fine wheat belonging to Mr. E. Kel- 

 logg, of Sheffield; Nelson Joyner, of Egremont; Enos Smith, 

 of Stockbridge ; R. Mills, and D. A. Bulkley of Williamstown, 

 and S. Powell of Lanesborough. 



