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was bestowed than is given the rye crop, excepting the appli- 

 cation of ten bushels of ashes in the spring. 



If winter wheat will continue to prosper, without tedious 

 labor in steeping the seed, and without any of those numerous 

 maladies which so often frustrate the hopes and subject the cul- 

 tivators of spring wheat to serious losses, it will prove worthy 

 of the attention of farmers. 



Pembroke, Oct. 13, 1850. 



George W. Wood's Statement. 



The land entered for premium for oats, is a clayey loam, the 

 same on which I raised my premium corn last year. It was 

 ploughed April 24th, harrowed and cultivated till the soil was 

 made very fine. Sowed three bushels of oats to the^'acre, 

 which were cultivated, harrowed and brushed in, till the ground 

 was very smooth. They were cut 31st of July and got in the 

 6th of August. I have this day had the oats measured that 

 grew on 154 rods, and there were 53 3-4 bushels. 



Expenses. — Ploughing, ^1 17; harrowing, &c., $2; three 

 bushels of seed, $1 50 ; cradling oats, ^0 83 ; taking up and 

 getting in oats, $1 08; threshing and cleaning up, $4; total, 

 $10 58. 



MiDDLEBOROuGH, Sept. 20, 1850. 



Thomas Weston^s Statement. 



The land on which I planted one half acre of white beans, 

 was planted to corn last year. On the 27th and 28th of May 

 last, I ploughed the ground seven inches deep ; June 14th, 

 drew on and spread eight loads of manure ; on the 15th, 

 ploughed in the manure four inches deep, and harrowed the 

 ground ; on the 17th, planted the beans in hills two feet apart 

 each way, put six beans in a hill and planted twenty-five quarts 

 of seed. July 8th, 1 hoed them and left the ground level. Oc- 

 tober 10th and 12th, pulled and put them in the barn ; soon 

 after threshed them, and there were eight bushels and seventeen 

 quarts of good beans. 



Expenses. — Ploughing, fl; drawing and spreading [manure, 

 $2 ; harrowing, 25 cents, ploughing in manure, 50 cents, plant- 



