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on November second, and harvested on Juno eleventh 

 and fifteenth. Fultz, first cut, gave nine bushels the 

 half acre, and eight hundred and thirty pounds of straw, 

 grain weighing sixty pounds the bushel. Eureka gave 

 eight and one-half bushels the half acre of grain, and 

 one thousand one hundred and ninety-six pounds of 

 straw ; the grain weighed sixty-two pounds the bushel ; 

 the land was a gray, micaceous, sandy loam. He further 

 experimented on six lots of land, of an acre each poor; 

 micaceous, siliceous soil, with many white flint rocks 

 scattered over it. The land was all plowed and fallowed 

 from the tenth to the eighteenth of September, 1877, 

 harrowed, and wheat sowed the Fultz by drill October 

 fifteenth ; in the following March, was harrowed and sowed 

 with clover seed. The wheat was harvested June tenth 

 and eleventh. Lot one was manured with two hundred 

 pounds ground bone, one hundred pounds nitrate of 

 soda, one hundred pounds muriate of potash, in all, 

 value nine dollars and seventy-five cents. Yield of grain 

 was eighteen and one-half bushels, weighing sixty-one 

 and one-half pounds per bushel ; straw, one thousand 

 three hundred and twenty-five pounds, and chaff, 

 two hundred and seventy-nine pounds. Same lot, suc- 

 ceeding year, without fertilizers, produced two and one- 

 half bushels grain, weighing sixty and one-half pounds 

 per bushel, four hundred and twenty pounds straw, and 

 thirty-three pounds chaff. Quantity of seed sown was 

 five pecks per acre. The other five lots, treated in simi- 

 lar manner the same two years, gave similar results, less 

 bushels of grain and of lighter weight. 



" A seventh acre-lot was manured with two hundred 

 pounds dissolved bone, one hundred pounds nitrate of 

 soda, one hundred pounds potash, all mixed ; value, 

 nine dollars and seventy-five cents ; sowed by drill with 

 five pecks Fultz wheat, October fifteenth. Yield was 

 eighteen bushels grain, weighing sixty-one pounds per 



