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they raise wheat with equal success and certainty as Indian 

 corn. This is the opinion of E. Phinney, of Lexington, and 

 we can have no higher authority ; and of William Adams, of 

 Chelmsford, who has grown wheat twenty years with but a 

 single failure in that time, and whose crops average thirty 

 bushels to the acre. Forty bushels have been grown. The 

 crop of wheat usually gives twenty bushels. Spring wheat is 

 the kind planted. It is commonly taken after corn, sometimes 

 with a good manuring of compost manure, but generally with- 

 out manure in the year of the wheat. 



1. The following estimate of the expense of cultivating an acre 

 of wheat was given me in Shirley. This was taken after corn. 



Ploughing, 2 00 ; sowing and harrowing, 1 50, . 3 50 



Seed, li bushel wheat, 2 50 ; cradling and getting 



in, 3 00, 5 50 



Threshing by machine, 1 50, , . . . . 1 50 



10 50 



Returns — Wheat, 18 bushels, (25 have been pro- 

 duced,) , , . . 27 00 

 Straw, three quarters of a ton, . 3 00 



30 00 



Balance in favor of wheat, $19 50 



2. In Groton, the following estimate is given of the cultiva- 

 tion of an acre of wheat : 



Twenty-four loads of compost manure, (no green 

 dung applied,) estimated at 6 cords, at $2 per cord, 



Carrying out and spreading, 3 00 ; If bush, seed, 5 00, 



Ploughing shallow upon the old sward so as not to 

 break it, ....... . 



Reaping and harvesting, ..... 



Threshing, with machine, 10 cents per bushel, 



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