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in August, 1880, rolled, and ten cords of manure carted on 

 from barn cellar, spread and harrowed with Randall harrow 

 and brush harrow until it was made fine ; one peck of herds 

 grass and one-half bushel of red-top seed was sown ; wliole 

 cost of manure and labor about 75 dollars. I have known 

 some farmers to use more seed, as much as one bushel to the 

 acre, of herds grass seed. My experience for more than forty 

 years is, that one peck of herds grass and from one-half to one 

 bushel of red-top is quite enough to the acre if the ground is 

 in suitable order. Some farmers say that it costs twenty dol- 

 lars a ton to raise English hay. I think much depends 

 on the quality of the soil. 



Newbury, Oct. 19, 1881. 

 This is to certify that I measured the land entered by Wm. 

 W. Perkins, for premium on grass, and that it contains one 

 acre. Edwin P. Noyes. 



I hereby certify that the above hay weighed (6700), six 

 thousand seven hundred pounds ; that the second crop weighed 

 twenty-one hundred and ten pounds. Frank Perkins. 



Newbury, Oct. 18, 1881. 



STATEMENT OP CHAS. W, ADAMS. 



The Wheat which I enter was raised on one acre of land. 

 The soil is rather a heavy loam. In 1880 the land was sown 

 to sugar beets and oats. 1 littered my cattle with a plenty of 

 salt hay, and threw it out with their manure daily. I used 

 about seven cords of this manure in a green state. In 1881, 

 I ploughed the land the first week in May, about five inches 

 deep, using no manure. I sowed one bushel and one peck of 

 seed to the acre. Cost of ploughing, harrowing, and rolling, 

 $5 ; cost of seed and sowing, $2 ; cost of cutting and harvest- 

 ing, $10 ; cost of threshing and winnowing, #10. The wheat 

 was weighed on Fairbank's scales. The amount was forty-one 

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