iGO jJassachusetts agriculture. 



The crop was harvested the tliird week in July, giving thirty- 

 two large cocks on the lot. The other piece, containing eighty- 

 six rods, fifteen links, was worked one day after the first. The 

 land in this case was of much hetter quality than the other, a 

 part of it heing high, sandy loam, running to a lower level, 

 and a deep black loam. This had been in cultivation two years ; 

 with corn the first. It was manured in the hill with equal 

 parts of old and green manure composted together. The 

 second year the manure was ploughed in at the rate of twenty- 

 five full ox-cart loads to the acre, consisting of manure from 

 the horse stable, thrown in the barnyard as it was teamed from 

 the city in the fall and winter. When this lot was ploughed 

 this spring, so much manure of the last year's application was 

 turned out, that it was thought unnecessary to apply any more. 

 The land in this case was only harrowed before sowing ; the 

 after treatment being the same as in the other case. This did 

 not come up so even as the other, owing, I think, to its not 

 being rolled before sowing. The yield in this case was forty 

 large cocks from two and a half bushels of seed. The yield in 

 grain, as will be seen by the certificates herewith presented, was 

 forty-two and one-quarter bushels from the one hundred and 

 forty-six rods of land, weighing fifty-two pounds to the measured 

 bushel, being 2,197 pounds, or within eleven pounds of forty- 

 eight bushels, at the society's standard of forty-six pounds to a 

 bushel, within a fraction of fifty-two and a third bushels to the 

 acre. 



My design in the management of the above named land, was 

 to obtain a good crop of grain, and have the land left in good 

 condition for grass ; and my experience, in this and other cases, 

 satisfies me that that is the best way to attain that end. It has 

 always seemed to me, that it is almost useless to expect a good 

 crop of hay, after taking from the land a crop of corn or 

 potatoes and a crop of grain, without the application of any 

 manure after the hoed crop. 



It may be thought by many that the amount of seed sown 

 was much too large, but I am satisfied that it was not the case, 

 fur those parts of my grain that were the thinnest, lodged the 

 most. Land that is under a high state of cultivation, needs 

 heavy seeding, and if you do not grow straw, you will be sure 



