GRAIN CROPS. 



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pounds, — the weight of untlircshcd grain, — leaves 1,901 pounds 

 of straw. As the grain was cradled very high, I cut the stubble 

 with a mowing-machine, that it might not interfere with mowing 

 the grass the next year, and it yielded a large half-ton of good 

 straw for bedding ; and in showing the products of the crop, it 

 should be added to the threshed straw. The cost and value of 

 the crop I estimate as follows : — 



Dr. 



To interest on land, . 

 ploughing land, 

 harrowing and sowing, . 

 1|- bushels of seed, 

 cradling and binding, 

 threshing and winnowing, 



By 25^ bushels of wheat, at 



$12 00 



Cr. 



1^ tons of straw, 



at $8, 



Net profit, . 

 Marblehead, November 12, 1862. 



Statement of S. A. Merrill. 



Wheat. — I submit the following statement of a crop of wheat 

 that I have raised this season, upon a piece of land measuring 

 23,301 feet:— 



Last April, about the 25th, I ploughed the land, and sowed 

 two bushels of wheat, well washed and mixed with a peck of 

 wood ashes ; after sowing I harrowed and rolled well. The 

 soil was a clayey loam, and had been planted two years — the 

 last year with mangel wurzel, producing about thirty tons to 

 the acre. 



This crop of wheat I harvested in August, and threshed in 

 October. The yield was 30f bushels of wheat, and 1^ tons of 

 straw. 



