244 FRANKLIN SOCIETY. 



submit the following statement in regard to a crop of spring 

 wheat, raised by us this season, on one acre and seventy-three 

 rods of land. The yield was fifty-one bushels, or a fraction 

 over thirty-five bushels per acre, weighing 61| lbs. per bushel. 



The soil is a stiff loam, and had been in grass seven or eight 

 years, previously to 1850, without manure. In the spring of 

 that year, spread thirty loads of green manure, (about thirty- 

 five bushels to the load,) and turned it under the sod, plough- 

 ing six inches deep, and planted to corn. Twenty bushels of 

 ashes, four of air-slacked lime, and two of plaster, well mixed, 

 were applied in the hill. The estimated yield was seventy- 

 five bushels to the acre. 



This year the land was ploughed once, the seed thoroughly 

 harrowed in, and the land rolled. Sowed, April 2d, the Black 

 Sea wheat, at the rate of two bushels to the acre. Prepared 

 the seed by soaking in brine twelve or fourteen hours, then 

 rolling it in lime. In May, after the wheat was well up, the 

 field was sown with plaster, about 150 lbs. 



Expense of Cultivation. 



Three bushels of seed, $1 50 per bushel, $4 50 



Ploughing, preparing seed and sowing, 3 50 



Harrowing and rolling, - - I 50 



Harvesting and carting, - - - 7 75 



Lime, salt, plaster, and sowing same, - 1 25 



Threshing, (by horse-power,) - - 3 00 



|21 50 



Fifty-one bush, of wheat at $1 33 per bushel, 67 83 

 Straw, - - . . - 8 00 



75 83 



Profit, $54 33 



SUELBURNE, NoV., 1851. 



James Child's Statement. 



The crop of wheat, which I enter for premium, was raised 

 on one acre and twenty-seven rods of land. It was stocked 

 down to clover in the fall of 1848. The summer of 1849, a 



