204 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



WHEAT. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Statement of Solon Carter. 

 The lot on which my wheat was raised contains two acres 

 and seventy-two and two-thirds rods. The soil is a clayey loam 

 upon a subsoil of clay-pan, with occasional tight stones. The 

 crop of 1856 was grass, without manure; that of 1857 corn, 

 with about twenty-five loads * per acre of manure from my 

 barn cellar. It was ploughed twice about the last of March, 

 first by splitting the hills, two furrows per row ; then ploughed 

 fine, six to eight inches deep, harrowed once after splitting the 

 hills ; no manure was used. It was sowed broad cast, April 3, 

 with two bushels per acre of coffee wheat, and was reaped July 

 28, bound and set in bunches of from twelve to sixteen sheaves 

 each, and covered with cloth caps ; in this situation it remained 

 ten or twelve days, when it was put in the barn. 



Cost of ploughing, &c., per acre, . . . . $3 50 

 seed and sowing, ..... 4 00 



harvesting, ...... 6 50 



Total, per acre, . . . 8^14 00 

 Product, 2,240 lbs., or 37^ bushels; of 60 pounds per bushel. 



RYE. 



BARNSTABLE. 



Statement of Zenas D. Basset. 

 The land on which this crop was raised measured one and a 

 quarter acres. The soil is light, having recently been cleared 

 of pitch pines. The land had been in grass for two previous 

 years. In 1857 about half the lot was planted with potatoes 

 in May, and after harvesting, the whole lot had about fifteen 



* A load is so indefinite tliat it is not possible to judge how the land was 

 manured, and hence all such statements are of little value. 



