104 ON GRAIN CROPS. 



true value of the practice. Mixed crops of the cereals, such as 

 wheat and oats, wheat and rye, &c., hare been much aipproved 

 in some districts of New England, and may be well worthy of 

 further experiments. But there are mixed crops too frequent- 

 ly seen every where around us, which all good amateur or 

 practical farmers decidedly condemn. These are mixed crops 

 of Indian corn, potatoes, or some of the above named vegeta- 

 bles, with Roman wormwood, and a variety of other weeds, 

 which add nothing whatever to the profits of agriculturaJ 

 operations. Farmers of Essex county, how long will you 

 tolerate such culture ? 



The Committee award the following premiums : 

 To Benjamin Rogers, of Andover, for wheat $6 00 



" Ephraim Brown, of Marblehead, for rye G 00 



" Adino Page, of Danvers, for Indian corn 6 00 



" Paul P. Pillsbury, of Andover, for a mixed crop of 

 corn and beans, they recommend a gratuity 6 00 



Per order of the Committee. 



ANDREW NICHOLS, Chairman. 

 November 22d, 1851. 



BENJAMIN ROGERS'S STATEMENT. 



I offer for premium a crop of Winter Wheat, called white 

 flint, measuring forty-one and a half bushels from one bushel 

 and three pecks of seed, sowed on one acre and 25^*^ rods of 

 land. This land has a northwesterly descent of twelve to 

 twenty feet. The soil varies from a light sandy loam, to 

 meadow mud ; the lowest part being so wet, that I was 

 obliged to dig a ditch the length of the field to drain the land. 



Last year this piece of land produced about one ton of hay. 

 Soon after it was mowed, it was ploughed with a large plough, 

 at least eight inches deep, and five cords of manure spread 

 and thoroughly harrowed — the manure used was such as is 

 made in hogpens from meadow mud, loam and barn manure, 

 the seed was sowed and covered with a harrow, and rolled on 



