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BARNSTABLE. 



Statement of Daniel Scudder. 



I offer for premium an experiment in the growth of Java spring 

 wheat. The seed was brought to this country in a bag of Java 

 coffee, and the few kernels found were planted for experiment. 

 I obtained three pecks of Mr. Stephen Dillingham, of West 

 Falmouth, and sowed it on 103 rods of land, a mixture of sand 

 and loam, planted, for the two previous years, with corn and 

 potatoes. The land had a fair coat of manure ploughed under 

 the furrow, and the seed was sowed April 15th. The product 

 was 18 bushels and 37 pounds of first quality of wheat. 



I think this variety of wheat well adapted to our soil, and 

 worthy of encouragement and cultivation. So far as it has 

 been tried, it has succeeded far beyond the ordinary kinds of 

 wheat. 



RYE 



HAMPSHIRE. 



Statement of P. N. Richards. 



The piece of rye entered for the Hampshire Society's pre- 

 mium, consists of one acre of heavy, sandy loam, in Sunder- 

 land. In 1856, it was well dressed with barnyard manure, and 

 twenty bushels of ashes applied broadcast, planted with corn, 

 and produced eighty-one bushels. 



On the 20th of October, 1856, I ploughed seven inches deep, 

 harrowed once, and sowed five pecks of rye, which I harrowed 

 in thoroughly. 



In March, 1857, 1 sowed grass seed, which took well, and on 

 the 26th of July I harvested twenty-nine bushels of rye. The 

 h3avy spring rains rendered the crop rather light. 



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