134 



IIarrowin<^, bushing, and rolling, - - $2.00 



Reaping, binding, and stocking, - - - 15.00 



Moving and stacking, .... 6.00 



Threshing and winnowing;, .... 16.59 



$92.09 



VALUE OF TUE CROP. 



132 3-4 bushels rye, at 90 cents, - - $119.52-^ 

 7 tons, 300 lbs. straw, at 75 cents per cwt., 107.25 



$226.77^ 

 Deduct cost, 92.09 



|134.68^ 

 The above crop is at the rate of 47 1-2 bushels to the acre ; and 

 the land on which it was raised has always been called worn-out 

 plain, and considered worth about $50 per acre. 



Respectfully yours, 



B. F. Dudley. 

 Milton, Sept. 26, 1853. 



STATEMENT OF HORATIO MASON, OF EAST MEDWAY, 

 ON WHEAT. 



To the Committee on Grain Croj)S, of the Norfolk Coiuiti/ Agricul- 

 tural Societij : 

 Gentlemen — The field of Wheat entered by mc for premium 

 contains 1 acre and 40 rods ; the soil gravel, and subject to drought ; 

 it has formerly been ploughed lightly. Last year I ploughed it full 

 two inches deeper, (about eight inches,) and spread the dry parts 

 with clay, at the rate of 20 loads per acre ; planted with corn ; 

 manured in the hill with 12 loads compost — one-third mud, one-third 

 clay, the remainder barnyard manure — and received a good crop. 

 After the corn was removed, I again spread the dry parts with clay. 

 In April of this year, I ploughed in the clay, and spread the whole 

 field with 12 loads green manure, and ploughed it in ; then sowed it 



