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much and two not enough. I am of the opinion that if I 

 had sowed only one peck more I should have had thirty- 

 bushels; it would have prevented the weeds from getting the 

 ascendancy, as they d'u'l in some spots. Two bushels and a 

 half, or two bushels and a peck is about the right quantity to 

 an acre ; the latter quantity on rich land and the former on less 

 cultivated land. 



S. Abington, Sept. 27, 1851. 



Sylvanus Hitickley^s Statement. 



The acre of land entered by me for the best crop of oats, is 

 of a gravelly loam. I have planted it with corn two years past, 

 by spreading on it about thirty-five loads of manure each year. 

 Last spring I ploughed and sowed about four* bushels of oats 

 to the acre without manure ; harvested and threshed in August, 

 and measured up sixty-two bushels and three pecks. Sowed 

 the oats 30th day of March. 



MiDDLEBOROUGH, Sej)f. 20, 1851. 



Leonard HilVs Statement. 

 The land on which my oats grew, the same I entered for 

 premium, produced a heavy crop of Indian corn in 1850. Ear- 

 ly in the spring of 1851, about the middle of April, it was 

 ploughed deeper than usual; 18th, I sowed on to the furrows 

 one and one half bushels of good oats and harrowed them once ; 

 afterwards sowed one and one quarter bushels oats, making two 

 and three fourths bushels in all. Then harrowed twice, leav- 

 ing the land light ; I then sowed on grass seed and brushed it 

 all over. They were cut the last of July and housed ; they 

 were threshed and cleaned the 15th and 16th of October, and 

 we find by measuring the same, to be forty-nine bushels clean 

 oats, two and a half bushels not so clean, making in all a frac- 

 tion over fifty-one bushels. There probably would have been 

 three or four bushels more had the season in the first part been 

 dry as usual. About ten square rods was under water so long 

 as to entirely spoil the whole growth of the ten rods. Expense 



* Three bushels of seed is quite sufficient for an acre. — Sup. 



