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Harvesting, _ _ _ _ 



Threshing, _ _ _ - 



Interest on land, _ - - - 



Net gain, - - - - - - $30 30 



John Stiles^s Statement. 



The wheat crop I offer for premium was grown on one acre 

 of land ; the product was thirty-seven and a half bushels, 

 weighing sixty-three and a half pounds per bushel. The 

 land was lightly manured a year ago last spring, and set with 

 tobacco, which was a good crop ; after the tobacco was taken 

 off, the land was ploughed once and sowed with one bushel and 

 a half of seed the twentieth of September ; the seed was first 

 soaked in brine, then rolled in lime. The land is rather heavy, 

 sandy loam. 

 Value of crop, at one dollar twenty-five 



cents per bushel. 

 Straw, - - - - 



Expenses for 

 Ploughing, _ _ _ 



Seed, salt and lime, 

 Sowing and harrowing. 

 Harvesting, _ _ _ 



Threshing, _ _ _ 



Net gain, _ . . . _ |45 S7\ 



R. H. Barlow^s Statement. 

 The crop of wheat which I present to the society for pre- 

 mium was raised on one acre and fifty rods of ground ; the 

 soil, a gravel, on which a crop of corn was grown in 1850. 

 The amount of manure for the corn crop was 20 common 

 cart-loads of barn-yard manure to the acre, made from turf, 

 muck, straw, leaves, &c. The crop of corn I did not measure 

 exactly, but called it about sixty bushels to the acre. After har- 



