^^S Wheat on the same spot 



Certificate, 



I live in Hanover, in York County, and have a lot 

 adjoining the town lots, containing one acre, and one 

 hundred and fifty three perches, enclosed with a fence 

 standing on the line, by which I am prevented from 

 ploughing about two feet of the lot all round it, which 

 takes oiF nine perches, and reduces the whole of the 

 lot under the plough to one acre and one hundred and 

 forty four perches. 



Six years ago it was in grass, and poor. I ploughed 

 up the sod, put on some stable manure, and then sow- 

 ed three bushels of wheat on it. — The crop was very 

 heavy, but I did not measure the grain. I then stub- 

 bled it down, harrowed it, and sowed three bushels of 

 the wheat which I had just taken off. The second year's 

 crop was full as good as the first. When I took off the 

 second crop, I ploughed down the stubble again, and 

 sowed w^ieat of the crop of the preceding year. — In the 

 winter I put on a thin coat of dung — the third year the 



crop was quite equal to any of the preceding years I 



ploughed down the stubble, and sowed orange-straw- 

 wheat, (the three first years was red-chaff.) The fourth 

 crop was overgrown in the straw, and therefore did not 

 yield so well as the former years. That crop, however, 

 I had measured, and it yielded 83 1-2 bushels, weigh- 

 ing 62 1-2 pounds per bushel. The former crops 



A suifuce clothed witli a cover of grass ; clover particularly, is always 

 tiicliorated. Constant stirring forbids gi-azing. Even where the hoof and 

 tooth arc excluded h-om clover ; sown to rot, and supply vegetable pabuluin ; 

 gi-eat benefits arise to those who farm only for crops requiring the plough or 

 hoe. The interval of rest affords manure ; where none other caji be ob- 

 tained, j^ p 



