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again performed on the last of July, and the ground loosened up 

 between the rows by a cultivator-harrow, about the middle of 

 August ; but there was no hilling up of the corn at either hoe- 

 ing, the ground being kept as nearly even as possible during the 

 whole season. 



Expenses. — Manure, eighty horse-cartloads, $80 ; guano, 

 poudrette and ashes, $20 ; drawing the same, |9 ; spreading, 

 $3; ploughing, $4; one and a half bushels of seed corn, 

 $1 50; planting, $7 50; hoeing and cultivating, for the sea- 

 son, $37. Total, after deducting half of the expense of ma- 

 nure for future crops, $112. Labor is charged at the rate of one 

 dollar per day. 



Bridgewater, Oct. 10, 1850. 



Benjamin HoharVs Statement. 



The acre of land entered for the premium on wheat, is a 

 claye}'' loam, which was in potatoes the two previous years. 

 Carted on twenty-five loads good compost manure ; it was 

 ploughed on the 10th, and again on the 20th of May. On the 

 22d of May, sowed two bushels of what was originally the 

 Black Sea wheat, but as I had acclimated it, I call it the Gold- 

 en Straw wheat ; the ground was then harrowed and brushed. 

 The wheat was reaped on the 7th of August, put up in small 

 bundles, and shocked in the field, where it remained about a 

 week. It was threshed on the 5th of September, and meas- 

 ured twenty bushels, one peck and two quarts. Exclusive of 

 the days of sowing and reaping, it was only eighty-four days 

 growing. I subsoiled one-half of the acre, and that part was 

 decidedly better ; the straw was stouter, and the heads were 

 longer. 



I have been in the habit of raising wheat for about twenty 

 years, and I do not remember of ever making a failure of it. 

 I feel as sure of a crop of wheat as I do of corn, and of late 

 years I have not soaked the wheat, either in brine or ley, or 

 rolled it in plaster or lime, I sow wheat as I do other grain, 

 without any extra labor, and find it the best crop with which 

 to lay down ground to grass, and the most profitable crop. I 

 consume considerable wheat in my poultry yard, and there is 



