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WORCESTER NORTH. 



Statement of Solon Carter. 

 The acre on which my wheat grew, is a clayey loam. The 

 crop of 1858 was grass, without manure; that of 1859 corn, 

 with twenty-five loads of manure spread, and plouglied in. The 

 corn hills were split two furrows to a row, November IG, 1859 ; in 

 April, these rows were split as before, and plouglied once, eight 

 to ten inches deep. It was sowed April 25th, with two bushels 

 coffee wheat, covered with a harrow, bushed and rolled ; reaped 

 by hand from the 10th to the 15th of August. 

 No manure was used for the present crop. 



Cost of ploughing, &c., $5 00 



seed and sowing, ..... 3 75 



harvesting, ...... 9 00 



Total, $17 75 



Produce, 2,167| lbs. wheat, weighed September 11 ; and one 

 and a half tons straw. 



Statement of Cyrus Kilburn. 



The lot on which my wheat grew contained one hundred 

 and ninety-nine rods ; is a clayey loam. The crop of 1858 and 

 1859 was corn, with twenty-five loads barnyard manure each year ; 

 it was ploughed once, five or six inches deep ; harrowed ; three 

 or four loads of coarse manure spread on a strip of wet, springy 

 land ; sowed the last week in September, 1859, with two bush- 

 els per acre of Blue-stem winter wheat ; reaped the last of 

 July, bound, stooked twenty-five sheaves to a stook, covered 

 with large hay caps, and when dry, carted to the barn and 

 threshed from the cart with a threshing machine. 



The wheat on the wet strip, fifteen to eighteen square rods, 

 proved almost a failure, being thrown out by the frost. 



Cost of ploughing, &c., 

 manure, 



seed and sowing, 

 harvesting, . 



Total, . 



$5 00 

 4 00 

 00 



11 00 



$2(3 00 



Produce, 2,476 lbs. wheat, weighed August 3d ; and two tons 

 straw. 



