ON WHEAT AND RYE. 75 



MOSES emery's statement. 



To the Committee who have in charge the ^premiums to he a- 

 warded upon the cultivation of Wheat and Rye. 

 The following is a statement of my process in obtaining the 

 crop which .1 enter for premium. The land had been pastur- 

 ed for several years and is of a sandy loam. It was broken up 

 in the spring of 18.30, and had forty loads of manure spread 

 evenly and ploughed in, and was planted with corn, without ma- 

 nure ifl the holes, and obtained about fifty bushels of Corn per 

 acre. After the corn was taken off the hills were split, and 

 forty-four loads of manure was spread, and remained upon the 

 top of the ground overwinter. In the spring of 1831 it was 

 again planted with corn, without manure in the holes, and had 

 about sixty bushels of corn per acre. In the spring of 1832 

 split the hills twice in a row, harrowed it down, and sowed it 

 part with wheat and part with rye, to wit : — 



One bushel of Rye and one and a half bushel of wheat ; crop 

 23 bushels of rye, and 22 1-2 of wheat— in the fall of 1832 the 

 stubble was ploughed in and sowed with Rye about the middle 

 of September, quantity of seed sowed two bushels, amount of 

 land two acres by measure. No manure has been put upon the 

 land since the fall of 1830, (by loads of manure I mean a common 

 cart full) with the exception of about ten bushels of unleached 

 ashes strewed upon a part of the land last spring. The grain 

 was harvested the latter part of July, it has been threshed and 

 winnowed since the twelfth of the present month and there was 

 ^xty eight and one half bushels. The rye was sowed dry. 



MosES Emery. 

 West Newbury, Sept. 25th, 1833. 



