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about twenty loads of barn-yard manure each year. Soil, a 

 rich, black loam, on a clay sub-soil. 



The method of" treatment for the present year was simply 

 once ploughing about six inches deep, and harrowing twice 

 before sowing, then sowed one bushel and three pecks of 

 seed, and harrowed twice alternately cross-wise ; sowed 

 grass seed, and lastly rolled the ground once with a heavy 

 ox-roller. No manure whatever used. 



Result. — The yield on one hundred and seventy-five rods 

 of land was 2522 pounds of wheat, or forty-five bushels and 

 two pounds; of fifty-six pounds to the bushel. (The kernel 

 was badly pinched, supposed by the severe drought in July.) 

 Three tons of straw, thirty-seven hundred weighed, the bal- 

 ance estimated. 



Dr. 



To ploughing $ 3 00 



harvestinof 1 00 



seed and application 5 00 



harvesting and threshing 10 00 



Total $19 00 



Cr. 



By forty-five bushels wheat at $1.50 $67 50 



three tons straw at $12.00 36 00 



Total $103 50 



$19 00 



Profit $ 84 50 



Respectfully submitted, 



N. Little, Jr. 

 Newbury, Nov, 5, 1878. 



This certifies that the above measurement of grain is cor- 

 rect. 



N. W. Moody. 



