CROP STATEMENTS. 



WHEAT. 



john a. morton's statement. 



My crop of wheat which is entered for a premium, 

 grew on one acre and eighty rods of ground. In 1859, I 

 put on twenty loads of green manure, and plowed in, to 

 the acre. Put a part of the land to tobacco, and part to 

 corn. Got a fair crop of each. About the middle of 

 April, 1860, I plowed the land seven inches deep ; put on 

 six loads of compost on the poorest part of the lot, and 

 run a harrow over it to level it before sowing. Soaked 

 four bushels of wheat in strong brine eight hours, then 

 turned off' the brine, and added slaked lime until it was 

 sufficiently dry to sow. The wheat was sown the 18th of 

 April, and harrowed in with a cultivator harrow. (Grass 

 seed was afterwards rolled in.) The crop was harvested 

 the 7th of August, and threshed in September. 



The produce was 52 bushels of good clean wheat, weigh- 

 ing 63 pounds per bushel, and two tons of straw. 



52 bushels wheat, at 

 Two tons straw, 



Value of crop, 



Plowing, sowing, and harvesting. 



4 bushels of seed, 



Threshing and cleaning, 



Salt and lime, 



Cost of crop, - 



Profit, - - $74 50 



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