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crop of rye was cut from it. Last year the first crop of clover 

 was cut for hay, and the second crop (about three-fourths of a 

 ton per acre) ploughed in. It was then, (Sept. 19lh) sowed 

 with two bushels of the Soule's variety of wheat. The yield 

 was twenty-nine bushels and thirty quarts to the acre, or thirty- 

 five bushels on the entire field. The soil of the field is a 

 sandy loam, of a medium quality. I also present for conside- 

 ration a field of rye, four acres and fifty-three rods, the culture 

 of which has been precisely like that of the wheat field, for a 

 few years past, it being a part of the same lot. The yield was 

 120 bushels, or twenty-seven bushels, twenty-two quarts to the 

 acre. 



Deerfield, Sept. 25, 1851. 



Aaro7i Budington's Statement. 



Previous condition of land, soil good, a deep loam. Part of 

 the land had carrots on it for three years past, the rest one year. 



Manured with fifteen loads stable manure. 

 Ploughing and sowing, four days, 

 Weeding and thinning, twelve days, 

 Harvesting, eight days, _ _ _ 



Seed, one pound orange carrot, 



$40 00 



Spread the manure before ploughing. Began to plough on 

 one side, with a side-hill plough, letting it run as deep as we 

 could make it ; ploughed one rod in width ; then raked the 

 stones and lumps of dirt into the dead furrow, and proceeded 

 in that way until finished. Sowed with seed sower ; the rows 

 on one half of the piece eighteen inches, and on the other half 

 two feet apart. Thinned the carrots in the former rows to one 

 foot apart, and the rest from eight to ten inches. Raised 384 

 bushels on half an acre of land. - 



Leyden, Nov.^ 1851. 



