LOT COMMENCED ON IN 1862. 



Potatoes last year, barley the present. Land ploughed 6 

 inches deep. 



April 23d, barley sown 5 bushels. Same quantities of grass 

 seeds as last year. 



Barley harvested first week in August : — 



Lot No. 1 yielded Ih bushels of barley, and 735 lbs. of straw. 



WORCESTER SOUTH. 



Statement of Dr. L. W. Curtis. 



The piece of land on which the experiments with manures 

 entered by me for the society's premium were tried, contains 

 about an acre, and was divided as directed into five plots. The 

 manure was a mixture of yard and stable manure. Eighteen 

 horse loads, of fifteen bushels each, (290 bushels,) were spread 

 on plot No. 1, and the whole piece ploughed eight inches deep. 

 The same quantity of manure was then spread on plot No. 2, 

 and the whole piece ploughed four inches deep. The same 

 quantity of manure was then spread on plot No. 3, and the 

 whole piece was cultivated. The field was then furrowed both 

 ways and planted, after which the same quantity of manure 

 that had been put on each of the first three plots was spread 

 on plot No. 4, plot No. 5 receiving no manure. 



The soil is a loam with clay subsoil, moist and retentive — a 

 part of it very wet until under-drained in 1859. 



