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and mixed in flour pudding will supply tlie place 

 of eggs." This quantity is a tnhle-spoonfid of snow 

 for each Cffg tltai might be necessari/: this is known 

 to be the proportion from the expciimeuts of ray 

 faniilv. A. W. 



MASS. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



MR. liEAVITT'S CULTIVATION OF A PREMIUM 

 CROP OP ■\VIIVTER-\VHEAT. 



Greenfield, .Yov. loth, 1832. 

 To the Directors of the Massachusetts AgricxiUural 

 Society. 



Gentlemen, I send you, for premium, a state - 

 ir.eut -of a crop of Winter-wheat, which I Have 

 raised the present year, in t)iis town. The land 

 on which it grew is a thin soil of sandy loam, and 

 has been improved as a mowing lot for fifteen 

 years next preceding 1830. 



The grass was taken oft' about the middle if 

 Juno 1830, and potatoes planted on the whoe 

 ground, the 22d of the same mouth, which yielt- 

 ed nearly 500 bushels, although the season, froii 

 that time, was unusually dry. 



In the spring of 1831, the land was manuret 

 and sowed with hemp, from which I had 4539 lbs 

 of cut stem, when dry. After removing the hemp, 

 the land was lightly manured with compost madf 

 of turf and weeds, with a small portion of the litte- 

 from a stable and hog-pen ; thwi ploughed twicf, 

 and harrowed after each ploughing; then sowel 

 with wheat and orchard grass seed, harrowed ani 

 rolled, and strewed over with about 4 bushels tf 

 line air-slacked lime. The wheat is a red heardtd 

 kind, grew thick and large, and was badly lodgd, 

 ■with the exception of small parts where it was en- 

 tirely winter killed. f 



It was thrashed the laUer part of August IW, 

 and measured when cleaned 38 bushels and ?2 

 quarts, exclusive of the rye, which was culled ojt, 

 and which would probably have made, the whae 

 quantity about forty bushels, it weighed 39 

 pounds to the bushel, and^ I have sold tlfe 

 whole of it, for seed, at .$1.75 per bushel. Qi 

 the 17th of September the stubble and grass wele 

 mowed, the product of which, when cured, I soU 

 at the estimate of one and a half ton of clean hat'. 



The laud was measured by Col. John Wilson, jif 

 Deerfield, and foOud to contain three roods aild 

 thirty-seven rods. Hooker Leavitt. 



Franklin, ss. jVov. IQth, 1832. Personally ap- 

 peared Hooker Leavitt and made oath to the tru;h 

 of the above statement by him subscribed. Bb- 

 fore me, Ala.nson Clark, Jus. Peace. 



P. S. The abovesaid lot of wheat was fre- 

 quently and seriously molested and damaged jy 

 fowls and swine. H. L. 



I, John Wilson, of Deerfield, in the County of 

 Franklin and Commonwealth of IMussachusel!s, 

 certify, that about the lOth of October 1831, 1 

 sowed a lot of land belonging to Hooker Leavitt, 

 Esq. in Greenfield, to wheat and orchard grass 

 seed, at the rate of about IJ bushel each, to (he 

 acre ; — that I have recently measured the same 

 land, and find it to contain three roods and thiriy- 

 seven rods. 



I have examined the wheat said to be produced 

 thereupon, which is fair, though much shrunk. 

 The shrinkage I impute to its great growth. 



Aot). 15, 1832. John Wilson. 



Franklin, ss. Aon. I5ik, 1832. Personally ap- 

 2>eared John Wilson, Esq. and made oath to the 



trutli of the above cei-tificate, by him subscribed. 

 Before me, Elisha Root, Jus. Peace. 



T, Henry E.Wells, of Greenfield, in the Comity 

 of Franklin, certify, that I assisted in harvesting 

 and threshing a lot of wheat, the present year, for 

 Hooker Leavht, Esq. of this town. 



I measured the product, when cleaned, which 

 was 38 bushels .and 22 quarts, exclusive of the 

 i\e, which I culled out before fhreshing. It 

 weighed, notwithstanding it w,is badly shrunk, '59 

 lbs. to the bushel. I also assisted Col. John Wil- 

 son in measuring the land- on which said wheat 

 grew, which was found to be three roods and 

 thirty-seven rods. 



It is my opinion, that if no part of it had been 

 winter-killed, the product would have been, at 

 l.-ast, 45 bushels. Henuy E. Wells. 



.\oi'. 10, 1832. 



Franklin, ss. jVow. 10th, 1832. Personally ap- 

 peared Henry E. Wells, and made oath to the 

 tiuth of the above certificate by Ijim subscribed. 

 Before me, Alanson Clark, Jus. Peace. 



MR. SPRAGIJE'S CULTIVATIOIV OF A PREMIUM 

 CROP OF BARLEY. 



We, Henry Sprague and Albert H. Sprague, of 

 Princeton, County of Worcester and Common- 

 wealth of SLossachusetts, do testify and say, that 

 the crop of barley raised by the said Henry Sprague 

 and ofl'ered for premium the present season, was 

 raised on a piece of land containing one acre and 

 one hundred thirty-six rods, and is the same piece 

 of land on which a crop of corn was raised in 

 1831, and offered for premium the same year. 

 Said piece of land was measured by Joseph Mason, 

 a sworn surveyor, m the fall of 1831, and his cer- 

 tificate lodged with Benjamin Guild, Esq. and the 

 said Sprague, for the admeasurement of said piece 

 of land refers to the certificate aforesaid. 



We further testify and say, that the ground on 

 which said crop of barley was raised, was in the 

 same state last spring that it was left last fall, after 

 removing or gathering the corn, (in Indian hills.) 

 That the product the preceding year was 202 

 bushels and 22 quarts q|" Indian corn, and the 

 quantit}' of manure used' last year w,as 37 loads 

 spread upon the ground, and 23 loads put in the 

 hills, as will appear by a former affidavit of the 

 said Henry Sprague. 



There has been no manure used on the land 

 the present year, and none since the corn was 

 planted in the spring of 1831. 



The quantity of barley sown was six and a half 

 bushels. The seed was sown the last week in 

 April, and the crop gathered or taken off on the 

 13th day of August. The crop was measured by 

 the said Henry and Albert H. Sprague, and con- 

 tained one hundred one and a half bushels. 

 Henri Sprague, 

 Albert H. Spragoe. 



Worcester, ss. Dec. 1, 1832. Sworn to before 

 me, Charles Russell, Jus. Peace. 



MR. GIDEON POSTER'S CULTIVATION OF 

 WINTER RTE. 



To the Committee of the Massachusetts Agi-ievltural 

 Society, on Jigricultural Experiments. 



Gentlemen, The following is the account of 

 the culture and product of a field of Winter-rye, 

 measuring as per the accompanying certificate of 

 a sworn surveyor. 



1 acre, 2 quarters and 19^ poles ; by Gid«on 



Foster, of Charlestown, Mass. The land is bor- 

 dering ou and near the mouth of Mystic river. 

 The soil is principally a black loam with clay bot- 

 tom. 



In 1831 it was planted with potatoes, with a 

 moderate supply of njanure, and yielded an ordi- 

 nary crop. The ])otatoes were removed the hist 

 week in Sept., the land well ploughed, and har- 

 rowefl in the usual way, with li bushels of seed 

 or 29 quarts to the acre. I owe my success prin- 

 cipally to the use of night manure, and to that in 

 consequence of its being well prepared by age, 

 and thoroughly mixed with a large proportion of 

 earth, and frequently removed bj the fork and the 

 shovel. So that being in this .way ripened for 

 use, it went immediately (not to burn as when ap- 

 plied green or new, bin) to nourish and fertilize 

 the soil. There was early in the spring of the 

 present year, spread on said field, about S cords 

 of the above-described manure. The field was 

 harvested the latter part of August, the grain 

 tliieshed soon after, and measured by the pur- 

 chaser, whose certificate follows, showing the pro- 

 duct to be Ql^- bushels, or 38 bushels and 2 quarts 

 to the acre. I am, gentlemen, very respectfully 

 yours, Gideon Foster. 



Middlesex, ss. JVov. 15, 1832. Personally ap- 

 peared the above-named Gideon Foster, and made 

 oath to the truth of the above statement by him 

 subscribed. Before me, 



Isaac Fisher, Justice of the Peace. 



I, Aa'ou Locke, of CharJestown, in the Comity 

 of Midt'lesex, do testify and s.iy, that in the latter 

 part of August, A. D. 1832, I purchased a certain 

 quantit; of rye of Gideon Foster of the same 

 Charlestown, then in the barn, under the care of 

 said Foster in said Charlestown, said to have been 

 raised by him on the within mentioned field ; I 

 also testify that I measured the same, and there 

 was of said rje sixty-one bushels and three pecks. 

 Aaron Locke. 



Middlesex, ss. Miv. 10, 1832. Personally ap- 

 peared the above-named Aaron Locki', and. made 

 oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him. 

 subscribed. Before me, Isaac Fisher, 



Justice of the Peace. 



The term " sovereign," as iipplied to an indi- 

 vidual State, is a solecism. The States are sov- 

 ereign only in matters of which their local Legisla- 

 ture may take cognizance. In all essentials which 

 constitute national sovereignty, they are entirely 

 deficient, having voluntarily surrendered them 

 without the reservation of a right to resume them 

 at will. W^e have the a\ithority of Dr. David- 

 Ramset, a name dear to South Carolina her.self, 

 for saying (2 vol. Ramsey's history, p. 174,) tliat 

 " the Act of Independence did not hold out to the 

 world thirteen sovereign States, but a common 

 sovereignty of the whole, in their united capa«- 

 ity." — Lynchburg Virginian. 



Medicines. — One of the most ettectual means for 

 curing a cut, bruise or burn, is said to be the in- 

 side coatuig of the shell of a raw egg. Apply the 

 moist surface to the wound ; it will adhere of itself,.- 

 I(^ve no scar, and heal any wound without pan* 

 more speedily than any plaster or salve in the 

 universe. 



Death has nothing terrible in it but what Ufa Las 

 made so. 



Do not trust nor contend, nor borrow nor lend^ 

 and you will live in quiet. 



