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water drained off, the wheat spread 

 on a tight floor, lime sprinkled on 

 it and raked over, until it was all 

 covered with the lime and dry, and 

 appeared all over as white as 

 rice. 'Ihere was no discernible 

 difference in the growth ol 

 the grain soaked in sea water, 

 and that soaked in ley. One 

 peck of his seed was soaked in 

 weak ley only an hour, and then 

 limed and sowed by itself upon a 

 quarter of an acre adjoining the 

 land already sown, part of the two 

 acres. This was much blighted, 

 and produced little in comparison 

 with the other part of the two acres. 

 The produce of an acre and three 

 quarters, which was sowed with the 

 wheat longest soaked was forty-foui' 

 bushels, weighing sixtj-two pound? 

 the bushel when first sowed. The 

 land on which this grew was a good 

 dark rich mould, and herds'-gras? 

 and clover was sowed with the 

 wheat. The grass was well grown, 

 and covered the ground when the 

 wheat was reaped, and the writer 

 supposes that if no grass had been 

 sown, the crop of wheat might have 

 been better. — Jigricullural Reposi- 

 tory, Vol. 111. p. 221. 



In the spring of 1814, Gorham 

 Parsons, Esq. sowed four acres and 

 thirty-two rods with four bushels ; 

 ploughed in eight loads of manure 

 to the acre, and laid it down with 

 herds'-grass, red-top, and red clo- 

 ver. It produced eighty-four bush- 

 els and an half of wheat, besides a 

 good crop of grass, which was 

 mowed in September. Mr. Par- 

 sons thinks, that his crop would 

 have been better had double the 

 quantity of wheat been sown, or 



two bushels to the acre. — Jigricul- 

 lural Repository^ Vol. 111. p. 271. 



In 1816 J, Lowell, Esq. observes, 

 that " I selected a piece of land, 

 measuring nearly three quarters of 

 an acre; its quality is but indifferent, 

 a light thin soil on a gravell} base. 

 It had been leased to different te- 

 iianls for six years, and was very 

 much exhausted, having been con- 

 stantly in tillage, and never sur- 

 charged with manure. 



" 1 sowed only one bushel of 

 wheat, at least one half less than I 

 should have sown; it was steeped 

 in brine for three days, limed, and 

 sown with one bushel of plaster of 

 Paris. The crop was sixteen bush- 

 els of very fair, full and heavy 

 wheat ; that is, about twenty two 

 bushels to the acre." — Jigricullural 

 Repository, Vol. IV. 272. 



Mr. Justin Ely writes to the Presi- 

 dent of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural Society as follows : — 



" The largest crop of winter 

 wheat was raised in Sprir.gfield last 

 summer (1816) that is known ever 

 (o have beert raised in this vicinity, 

 and perhaps larger than was ever 

 before raised in New-England. 



" Four acres of land, one of the 

 house-lots in Springfield-Street, be- 

 longing to the distillery company, 

 three years ago last spring were 

 English mowing. It was manured 

 and plouglied up and planted with 

 Indian corn, and dung put in the 

 hills. The crop was abundant. 

 The next spring it was covered 

 with very rich manure from the 

 distillery, and hemp seed sowed 

 thereon. The crop was large and 

 heavy. The land was then plough- 

 ed twice and sowed with the bald 



