80 ON THE CULTIVATION OF MIXED AND GRAIN CROPS. 

 ASA T . N E \V n A L Lr S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on mixed Crops : 



Gentlei\ien: — I have made experiments on mixed 

 crops the present year, and will briefly state the result. 

 The experiments were made on a piece of plain gravel 

 loam containing about six acres, a part of which is coarse 

 and full of small stones, on which there had been no 

 manure for the last 9 or 10 years. In 1841 it was sown 

 with rye; in 1842 the stubble was ploughed in and Indi- 

 an wheat sown, but a small part of which, either from 

 age (it being 6 or 7 years old) or from some other cause, 

 vegetated, which was ploughed in in the fall of 1842. 

 In the spring of 1843 a compost manure consisting of 12 

 cords of manure from the barn and pig yard, and 12 

 cords of meadow mud and 3 leaches of ashes, was 

 spread and ploughed in, and afterwards harrowed and 

 rolled. The planting was on the 23d, 24th, and 25th of 

 May. 



Lot No. 1, containing 194| rods, w4iich was planted 

 in alternate rows of corn (called Highgate,) and pota- 

 toes, a part the orange and a part the blue-noses, which 

 produced 34 bushels 27 quarts of corn, 145f bushels of 

 potatoes, which is equal to 28 bushels 4^ quarts of corn, 

 weighing 60 lbs. per bushel, and 120 bushels and 6 

 quarts of potatoes to the acre. 



Lot No. 2. All potatoes, 82| poles, seeded with 

 long reds and blues, which are considered to be the 

 most productive kinds, yielded 109 bushels, which is 

 106 bushels and ten quarts per acre. 



Lot No. 3, containing 172 poles, planted with fifteen 

 different kinds of corn mixed, twenty-nine kinds of po- 

 tatoes in alternate rows; some of the kinds of corn and 

 of the potatoes on this lot were of the most unproductive 

 kinds ; yielded 31a bushels of corn and 105^ bushels of 

 potatoes, being 29 bushels and 10 quarts of corn weigh- 

 ing 62 lbs per bushel and 99i- bushels of potatoes to the 

 acre. 



Lot No. 4. All Corn, contains 87 poles, yielding 28 

 bushels and 20 quarts of corn, which is 26 bushels and 



