194 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



We award a gratuity to Joseph Kline, of Egremont, for a 

 piece of excellent spring wheat of a new variety, which he 

 has been to some expense and trouble to introduce here, and 

 which bids fair to be valuable, called the "Bald Club Wheat." 



NORFOLK. 



Statement of Horatio Mason. 



The field of wheat entered by me for premium, contains one 

 acre and forty rods ; the soil gravel, and subject to drought ; it 

 has formerly been ploughed lightly. Last year I ploughed it 

 full two inches deeper, (about eight inches,) and spread the 

 dry parts with clay, at the rate of twenty loads per acre; 

 planted with corn ; manured in the hill with twelve loads com- 

 post — one-third mud, one-third clay, the remainder barnyard 

 manure — and received a good crop. After the corn was re- 

 moved, I again spread the dry parts with clay. In April of 

 this year, I ploughed in the clay, and spread the whole field 

 with twelve loads green manure, and ploughed it in; then 

 sowed it with spring wheat, and harrowed in ; the produce was 

 one thousand three hundred and eighty pounds. I have not, in 

 the account, charged for the clay. I consider that a large share 

 of it remains for the benefit of future crops. 



I charge for the 



Two ploughings, $3 00 



Sowing and harrowing, . . . . 1 50 



One-half twelve loads manure, . . . 6 00 



Reaping, binding, say $4 ; threshing, $4, . 8 00 



Two bushels seed, at $1.50, . . . 3 00 



Interest on land, worth say $50 per acre ; taxes, 4 20 



$25 70 



Or. — By twenty-three bushels wheat, at $1.50, . . $34 50 

 East Med-way, November, 1853. 



