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deep, and sown, 13th of May, with two and one-fourth bushels 

 of Mediterranean wheat to the acre. 



Mr. Tyrrell's crop, on which the third premium was awarded, 

 was sown after corn that received twenty-five loads of hog 

 and compost manure to the acre last year, and produced eighty 

 bushels per acre. This season it was ploughed twice, seven 

 inches deep ; sown 5th of May, two bushels of Mediterranean 

 wheat, and three pecks of plaster, per acre, being used. 



Mr. Richard's wheat, which received the fourth premium, 

 was on greensward ploughed last fall. Seven loads of long 

 manure ploughed in this season; sown 10th of May; two bush- 

 els of Italian wheat per acre. 



We saw fine fields of spring wheat in every section of the 

 county we visited ; and, so far as our observation extended, it 

 had escaped the ravages of the insect with a single excep- 

 tion — that of Mr. Russell, of Pittsfield. 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Joseph Kingman. 



The ground on which my wheat grew, for which I entered a 

 claim as one of the competitors for the society's premium, con- 

 tains one acre and twelve rods, as surveyed by Mr. Copeland. 

 It is high, warm land — a sandy loam. It had been planted the 

 two years previous — the first to corn, the next to potatoes. 



The 15th of September I sowed five pecks of the white Flint 

 wheat. I put on twenty bushels of ashes and three loads of 

 compost manure on the poorest part of the lot at the time of 

 sowing. I had manured the land for each of the previous crops 

 with about twenty ox-cart loads from my barn yard. 



My wheat stood the winter well, and looked finely in the 

 spring and first part of summer. It suffered very much from 

 the drought of July, and a portion of it somewhat from blight 

 or rust on the straw. These two causes, I think, reduced the 

 amount of wheat one-fourth or more ; but, notwithstanding, I 

 had twenty and one-fourth bushels of handsome wheat. I 

 would remark, that I was unable to get it threshed until the 

 22d of September. Had it been threshed immediately after 



