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This may certify that the undersigned assisted in 

 harvesting and measuring the above crop of barley, and 

 testifies that the above statement, as to quantity, is cor- 

 rect ; and I am of opinion that if the grain could have 

 been harvested and threshed under more favorable cir- 

 cumstances, the crop would have been much greater. 



EATON LOTHROP. 



This may certify to whom it may concern, that I have 

 this day surveyed a field in Lynn, belonging to Mr. J. H. 

 Coggeshall, and find the contents three acres and one 

 hundred and forty-eight rods, — of which, three acres, 

 eighty-five rods are barley stubble, and sixty-three rods 

 grass stubble — recently mowed. 



Lynn, August 3, 1844. 



ALONZO LEWIS. 



PAUL P. PILLSBURY'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Grain Crops : 



Gentlemen, — My experiment on a crop of oats, which 

 I offer for premium, was conducted in the following 

 manner : 



The land was a worn-out wet meadow, which did not 

 produce gi'ass enough last year to pay for cutting. I took 

 advantage of a dry time and burnt it over, and where it 

 did not burn the sod off I dug it up and burnt it on the 

 ground. After the ground froze I hauled on about 

 eighty cart loads of loam to the acre, and spread it im- 

 mediately. The whole cost of the above was sixteen 

 days labor per acre. About the last of April last, 1 

 sowed two and a half bushels of oats per acre and raked it 

 in ; cost, one and a half days labor per acre. One acre 

 measured off from a flat of about five acres, produced 

 seventy-two and a half bushels. The above flat of ground 

 had been previously ditched. 

 Yours, &c., 



PAUL P. PILLSBl^RA\ 



Andover, Nov. 5, 1844. 

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