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more than forty-five bushels to the acre. This year I had just 

 an acre, and have threshed by estimation about one-half of the 

 crop, and there will certainly be thirty-five bushels, and prob- 

 ably more, per acre. I have, by necessity, been obliged to grow 

 it on rather low land for wheat, but have selected such pieces as 

 had a slope, so that there would be no standing surface-water in 

 the winter, which I consider very injurious to the wheat crop. 

 The soil was a strong and rather moist sandy loam. The 

 previous crops had been treated, and were as follows : spring of 

 1864, grass sod, upon which was spread thirty-five horse-cart 

 loads of green manure to the acre and plouglied in ; planted 

 with potatoes ; crop quite heavy, but cannot state how much. 

 In 1865 ploughed in another dressing of green manure ; planted 

 with sweet corn ; crop very good ; sold 126 barrels ; average 

 price, $2 ; fed the refuse and stalks to cows. In 1866, wishing 

 to sow to wheat, the first of September I ploughed and seeded 

 to millet about the first of June, without manure, and had a 

 very heavy crop. The last of August ploughed and spread on 

 fifty bushels of leached ashes and two hundred pounds of home- 

 made superphosphate to the acre ; sowed one bushel of wheat ; 

 ploughed in with a horse plough three inches deep ; harrowed ; 

 sowed grass seed ; covered with brush harrow and rolled down 

 smooth ; and this is a sample of the wheat raised. I have since 

 mowed the rowen, of which there was at least a ton to the acre. 

 I attribute the success that I have had to the following, which 

 I consider necessary conditions : 1st, a good, strong soil, well 

 pulverized and well manured ; 2d, no standing surface-water in 

 winter ; 3d, a hardy wheat of good quality, and early, so that 

 it will escape the fly ; 4th, deep planting, to prevent heaving. 

 Two years ago I harvested the crop the 3d of July ; this year 

 about the 12th. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Statement of Luther Page. 



SPRING WHEAT. 



The crop on this land in 1866 was grass ; no dressing used. 

 This year the crop was spring wheat. The soil is yellow loam 

 with rough clay bottom. I broke up from five to six inches 

 deep the last of September ; spread fifteen loads of manure 

 from the barn cellar upon the soil ; harrowed it well. The last 



