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Statement of Lorenzo Phelps. 



The wheat which I enter for premium grew on a light, sandy 

 soil, with a gravelly subsoil. The land is situated in Lowell, 

 near the old Middlesex canal, and east of the road leading to 

 Chelmsford. The piece from which the half acre is taken 

 contains about three-fourths of an acre, with one bushel's sowing. 

 The wheat is the white bald winter wheat:, and was sowed the 

 middle of September last without manuring. The land was 

 broken up in the spring of 1859, and planted with potatoes that 

 and the following year, with one shovelful of horse manure and 

 a little lime to the hill. After the potatoes were off, the land 

 was ploughed deep and fine, and wheat sowed on the furrow. 



Expense per half acre : — 



Ploughing, II 00 



Two-thirds bushel of seed, at 12.50, . . . . 1 66f 



Sowing, 25 



Harrowing and rolling, 75 



$3 66| 



The whole weight of wheat on the half acre was 765|: pounds. 

 "Weight per bushel, 61 pounds, 3 ounces. 



Lowell, July 26, 1861. 



NANTUCKET. 



Statement of Allen Smith. 



Having entered as a competitor for the premium for the best 

 acre of wheat, I will state that the soil is a sandy loam, and has 

 been planted to corn two years. Last year (1860) it produced 

 about thirty bushels per acre. Last winter I applied fifteen 

 loads of liquid night-soil to this acre, each load containing one 

 hundred and twenty gallons. I ploughed the 1st of March, and 

 on the 30th sowed one and a half bushels of wheat soaked in 

 brine. Harvested the 3d and threshed the 12th of August, and 

 the yield was 1,260 pounds, or twenty-one bushels of good 

 wheat. 



