ON CULTIVATION OF CROFS. 85 



RICHARD JAQUES'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, > 

 on Cultivation of Crops : > 



Gentlemen — I submit the following statement of 

 my method of raising a crop of Oats, on one acre of 

 flat clayey pasture land, which never had been 

 ploughed. The soil is about five inches deep, and so 

 liable to be hove with the frost, that it has produced 

 but very little grass. In 1338, it was ploughed in 

 lands about thirty feet wide, that the dead furrow 

 might be a drain to carry the water off; it was ma- 

 nured in the hills, with about three cords and a half 

 of stable manure, and planted with potatoes, and it 

 yielded about 90 bushels, it being a poor season for 

 such land. The present season it was harrowed and 

 then had spread on two hundred bushels of leached 

 ashes, and then sowed with two and a half bush- 

 els of Oats and a peck and a half of Herds Grass seed, 

 and then harrowed and rolled with a heavy roller ; 

 and produced sixty-seven bushels of Oats, weighing 

 thirty-five pounds per bushel. R. Jaques. 



Newbury, Sept. 26, 1839. 



JOHN EDMONDS' STATEMENT. 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, "i 

 on Crops : 5 



Gentlemen — The crop of Rye, which was enter- 

 ed for premium, is situated on the Town Farm, in 

 Danvers. The field contains three acres. The qual- 

 ity of the land is ordinary, yielding sorrel naturally. 



