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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



OATS 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Statement of John Brooks^ Jr. 



The acre on which my oats grew is a light soil with a clay 

 subsoil. The crop of 1856 was corn, with fifteen loads of 32 

 bushels compost manure and 100 lbs. guano, tliat of 1857, 

 potatoes, with fifteen loads of cow manure. It was ploughed 

 once May 10th, about eight inches deep, manured with fifteen 

 loads of horse manure, and 150 lbs. guano spread and harrowed 

 in ; sowed broad cast. May 10th, with three bushels Hungarian 

 oats, and reaped Aug. 15th. They lodged very much, and I 

 was obliged to harvest them before they were ripe. 



Cost of ploughing and harrowing, . . . . $3 00 

 manure and guano, . . . . . 19 50 

 seed and sowing, ..... 1 62 



Total, exclusive of harvesting, . . $21 12 



The threshing cost every tenth bushel. 



Product, as ascertained by the committee, November 1st, ten 

 pounds, fifteen ounces per square rod, or 1,750 pounds the acre, 

 or 54]-^ bushels of 32 pounds, but actually measuring 70 

 bushels the acre. 



