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statements which they have ah-eady respectively made, the fol- 

 lowing particulars, viz. : the value of the land upon which the 

 several crops above mentioned were raised ; the annual interest 

 on that value; the amount of taxes; the value of manure, or 

 ashes, or plaster used ; the cost of seed ; the expense of pre- 

 paring the ground; of sowing or planting ; of cultivating and 

 harvesting the crop ; and the total value of the crop raised ; 

 that thus, by a single glance, the net value of the production 

 may be seen. 



RALPH SANGER, Chairman. 



C. C. SeivalVs Stateinent. 



The quantity of land on which my spring wheat was raised, 

 is, by the measurement of a surveyor, ninety-three rods. The 

 quantity of grain, threshed by horse power, is seventeen bushels 

 and two pecks. 



The soil is partly light and gravelly, and partly a rich, heavy 

 loam. It was heavily manured last year, with a mixture of 

 compost and green manure, and planted with corn and potatoes. 

 It produced a fair crop. This year it was ploughed deeply, in 

 April, and manured with a light compost, at the rate of about 

 four cords to the acre. The quantity of seed sown was five 

 pecks and two quarts. When the wheat had grown about two 

 inches, it was spread over with eleven bushels of wood ashes. 

 The crop was much lessened by violent winds and rains, which 

 prevented the harvesting of it in proper season. 



The grain is the Black Sea wheat. It has been raised on 

 my farm for several years, with good success. I regard the 

 manuring with wood ashes, after the grain is fairly growing, of 

 essential benefit. I estimate the quantity of grain at about 

 thirty bushels and six quarts to the acre. 



HoTatio Masoii's Statement. 



I offer for premium a crop of spring wheat, raised on one 

 hundred and forty-six rods of ground, measuring twenty-five 

 and three-quarter bushels. This kind of wheat was recom- 

 mended to me, as less liable to rust than other kinds, and I 

 procured a barrel of it, from the town of Freeman in the State 



