156 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Ploughing and sowing, 

 11 bushel seed, 

 Harvesting and threshing, 

 Interest on land, . 



Profit, $53 00 



South Wilbraham, October, 1860. 



NORFOLK. 



Statement of A. L. Smith. 



The field of wheat entered by me for premium, measures one 

 hundred and seventeen rods, and was part of an old pasture 

 until 1858, when it was ploughed and planted with potatoes, 

 manured with coarse manure composed mostly of meadow hay, 

 that had been used for litter under the cattle. In 1859 it was 

 in corn, with a good shovelful of compost manure applied to 

 each hill. Soil, a gravelly loam. The first week in May last I 

 ploughed the ground seven inches deep, and the next week 

 sowed one bushel Java wheat, one cask air-slacked lime, and 

 ten bushels of leached ashes, when the whole were harrowed in 

 together. Harvested in August twelve bushels good wheat, 

 weighing sixty pounds per bushel. 



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EXPENSES OF CROP. 



Ploughing, once, $1 75 



Seedj 82.50, lime and ashes, $1.13, . 



Sowing seed, lime and ashes, 50 cts., harrowing, 75 cts.. 



Cradling, 75 cents, binding, $1, 



Threshing, $1.50, carting straw, $2, . 



Interest on land, and taxes, 



VALUE OF CROP. 



Twelve bushels wheat, .... 



Thirteen hundred pounds straw, sold at 75 cts . , 



Net profit, $19 63 



Dover, October 15, 18G0. 



