88 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



GRAIN CROPS. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Statement, of Leivis A. Goodrich. 

 Corn. — The soil on which I raised my corn offered for pre- 

 mium, is clayey loam. It was in grass in 1863, and was 

 manured with eighteen loads of barnyard manure, of thirty 

 bushels to a load, two hundred pounds of plaster, and two 

 hundred pounds of superphosphate. It was ploughed in 

 November, 1863, and in spring for present crop, four to six 

 inches deep, and harrowed one way, in May ; the cost of plough- 

 ing and other preparation was |8 ; the manure cost 83, and was 

 spread and harrowed in ; the plaster and phosphate cost $8, and 

 were dropped in hills about three feet apart, and the corn 

 dropped on that. The cost of seed 'and planting was $6. The 

 cultivator was run through, and it was hoed twice, costing 

 about $10. It was harvested from the 15th to the 20th of Sep- 

 tember, by being cut and stooked in the field until dried ; the 

 cost of harvesting and husking was $7. The whole cost is 869 

 for the acre. Amount of stover, four tons ; the weight on one 

 acre was 4,440 pounds of shelled corn or 79|^f bushels. 



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Statement of Cyrus Kilburn. 



Winter Wheat. — I raised my wheat on a clayey loam soil, 

 ploughed about seven inches deep. I applied only one barrel 

 of superphosphate, and September 22d sowed two bushels of 

 blue-stem winter wheat, and cradled it the last of July. The 

 crop was injured by the Timothy grass sown with it. By 

 repeated experiments I am convinced that no grass seed should 

 be sown with winter wheat till the next spring ; the grass being 

 more hardy will start first and check the wheat. I think this 

 an important item in the successful cultivation of winter wheat. 

 The amount of wheat was twenty-four bushels to the acre, and 

 about one ton of straw. 



Cost of phosphate, .... 



" " ploughing, .... 



" " seed -and sowing, 

 " " harvesting, .... 



$26 00 



