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35 bushels 7 quarts, at $1 33 per bushel, . 

 One ton of straw, 



Deduct expense of labor and seed, 



Leaves a profit of $41 29 



Shelburne, Nov. 15, 1852. 



E. E. Robinson's Statement. 



This land that I sowed to wheat was old plain land. It 

 was considered very poor. My mode of cultivating this land, 

 six years past, has been as follows : the first year was to 

 plough in about twenty loads of swamp muck per acre, and 

 about twelve loads of compost manure in the hill, one-half of 

 it was stable manure and the other half was swamp muck ; 

 planted broom-corn ; and when I cut the corn in the fall I 

 ploughed the stalks in, and sowed it to rye ; and in the spring 

 following I sowed on clover and harrowed it in, and the next 

 year I cut it over, but it was not worth gathering; my reason 

 for doing so was to have the clover roots grow ; and the next 

 year I commenced the same rotation as above stated. I sowed 

 my wheat about the 10th of September. I sowed two bushels 

 per acre ; and in the spring I sowed on about 20 bushels of 

 ashes per acre on my wheat, and the crop of wheat was 27 

 bushels per acre. The wheat that I sowed was the white flint 

 bearded wheat. 



The land that I sowed to rye was old plain land, very poor 

 indeed. I went through the same rotation as above stated, 

 except the ashes. I did not sow any on. My rye I sowed 

 about the 1st of October. I sowed one bushel per acre. The 

 crop of rye was 18 bushels per acre. The rye that I sowed 

 was the white rye. 



My mode of ploughing this land has been from seven to 

 ' eight inches in depth. 



Sunderland, Sept. 21, 1852. 



Thomas Greenoug-h's Statement. 



We present for your consideration a crop of winter wheat, 

 raised on Fort Hill, in Deerfield, on a field containing 168 rods 



