44 ON WHEAT AND RYE. 



No. IX. ON WHEAT. 



SILAS Pearson's statement. 

 To the Secretary — 



Tlie following is a statement of the wheat crop 

 which I entered for premium. The lot of land en which the 

 wheat grew, contained one acre and ten poles. The soil is a 

 yellow loam. It was planted with potatoes for two seasons next 

 previous to the growing of the wheat. It was manured with 

 about twelve or fifteen common cart-loads of manure from the 

 barn yard, each year. No manure was put on the land the pres- 

 ent season. It was ploughed about the middle of April, and 

 harrowed and sowed immediately after. Two bushels of white 

 loheat was sowed. Previous to sowing, the seed was soaked 

 about twelve hours in water, and one peck of dry ashes was 

 mixed with it, after the water was drained off, for the conve- 

 nience of sowing. The crop v/as reaped the first week in Au- 

 gust, and threshed in September, and the quantity of sound 

 grain obtained, was twenty-six bushels, weighing 58 lbs to the 

 bushel. It is not in my power to be more particular in the state- 

 ment of facts relating lo the cultivation of this crop, as I did not 

 contemplate entering it for premium until late in the season. 



At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, Jan. G, 1835, the 

 foregoing statement, together with the certificate, corroborative 

 of the facts therein mentioned, having been examined, 



Voted, That the Society's premium of ten dollars, for the 

 best crop of wheat, Sec, be awarded to Silas Pearson, of New- 

 bury. 



Attest, John W. ProctoRj Secretary. 



RYE. 



FREDERIC knight's STATEMENT. 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, on rais- 

 ing Rye. 

 Gentlemen — 



I submit for your consideration, an account of a 

 crop of winter rye, raised on an acre of land, the present year, 



