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John A. Morton'' s Statement. 



The wheat crop I offer for premium, and which your com- 

 mittee inspected, was grown, on one acre and thirteen rods of 

 ground. The soil was gravelly. The land was lightly manured 

 a year ago last spring, and a part of it put to tobacco and a 

 part to potatoes, which was a good crop. After these crops 

 were taken off, the land was ploughed once, and five loads of 

 compost manure spread on the poorest part of the land, and 

 sowed with two bushels of seed, about the 20th of September. 

 The seed was first soaked in brine, then rolled in lime. Land 

 valued at $50 per acre. Raised 33 bushels of wheat, weighing 

 62 lbs. per bushel. 



VALUE OF CROP. 



33 Bushels, at $1 50 per bushel, at which price I sold 



$58 00 



14 75 



Net gain, 



Hadley, Oct. 27, 1852. 



. $43 ?5 



Tliomas Hastings's Statement. 



The land on which my rye was grown, was pasture, some- 

 what stony. Have pastured it four or five years. I ploughed 

 in June, 1851, and in August dragged and cross-ploughed, 

 again dragged, and in October sowed it. 1 used no manure. 

 The rye was gathered in July, 1852, and yielded 39 bushels 

 and 53 lbs., by weight, at 56 lbs. per bushel. 



VALUE OF CROP. 



39 Bushels 53 lbs., at 92 cents per bushel, 

 1|^ Tons straw, at $6 per ton, . 



41 



$36 73 



7 50 



$44 23 



