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turned off the brine and added slacked lime until it was suffi- 

 ciently dry to sow. The wheat was sown April IStli, and har- 

 rowed in with a cultivator harrow. (Grass seed was afterward 

 rolled in.) The crop was harvested August 7th ; the produce 

 was fifty-two bushels of good clean wheat, weighing sixty-three 

 pounds per bushel. 



Dr. 

 Ploughing, sowing and harvesting, . . . . $8 00 



4 bushels of seed, . . . . . . . 8 00 



Threshing and cleaning, . . . . . . 10 00 



Salt and lime, 50 



52 bushels wheat, at 

 2 tons straw. 



$74 50 

 Statement of Levi Stockhridge. 

 My experiment with wheat was tried on two acres and ninety- 

 three rods of land. The soil was a sandy loam. It was in 

 broomcorn in 1859, and part of it had been planted to broom- 

 corn, more than forty successive years. The land was ploughed 

 the 14th of April, and sown the 16th. Instead of using the 

 harrow, the seed was put in with a large cultivator. No 

 manure was applied, and the seed (two bushels and one-lialf to 

 the acre) was sown without any previous preparation. It was 

 harvested the 7th and 8th of August, and threshed the 28th 

 and 29th, yielding one hundred bushels of well-cleaned wheat, 

 weighing sixty-four pounds to the bushel, and three and one- 

 half tons of straw. The expense of raising was as follows : — 



Seecl, $10 50 



Ploughing and harrowing, . . . . . 5 25 



Harvesting, ........ 6 00 



Threshinff . 10 00 



Total, $31 75 



I make no estimate of tlie value of the wheat and straw, 

 thinking it better for the committee to make some standard 

 value for all competitors. 



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