STATEMENTS. 



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except phosphate and plaster, a handful of equal parts in each 

 hill ; the soil is clay bottom, and was plowed once, six inches 

 deep; harrowed once, sowed and cultivated twice, once each 

 way ; the cost of plowing and other preparation, two dollars and 

 fifty cents, no other manure being applied ; sowed the last of 

 August, one and a quarter bushels White Winter Rye ; cut and 

 stooked the last of July, and threshed the last of August ; cost 

 of harvesting, including the storing and threshing, thirteen dol- 

 lars fifty cents ; the amount of straAV, one and a half tons. 



Statement of Cyrus Kilhurn. 



BUCKWHEAT. 



The crop of 1866, was potatoes, twelve loads of compost to the 

 acre ; the crop of 1867, was buckwheat, one hundred lbs., of Su- 

 perphosphate of Lime having been applied to the acre, at a cost 

 of three dollars ; the soil is a black loam and was plowed but 

 once only, six or seven inches deep ; cost of plowing and other 

 preparation, three dollars ; applied nothing but one hundred lbs. 

 of Pacific Guano, at a cost of three dollars ; sowed about twenty 

 quarts of Buckwheat about the 25th of June, and harrowed and 

 rolled the same ; cost of seed and planting, three dollars ; cra- 

 dled about the middle of September and set up in stooks ; cost 

 of harvesting and threshing, four dollars ; amount of straw about 

 one-half ton. 



Buckwheat is a valuable grain and worth as much for fowls as 

 Indian Corn. It is not unpalatable when it is floured, in griddle 

 cakes, stove cake baked in a sheet iron pan, or pudding a la mush. 

 The labor in raising a crop of buckwheat is much less than in 

 any other crop of gram, and as above stated, three dollars worth 

 of fertilizer is sufficient for a crop. The square rod of buckwheat 

 selected by the Committee, stood eight days in the stook till the 

 rest of the field was harvested, and a predatory bird, the small 

 grossbeak, plundered a part of this sample and a great deal of 

 the field crop after leaving the corn field. 



Statement of Ephraim G-raham, 



WHITE BEANS. 



The crop of 1866 and 1867, was White Beans, with about 

 twenty loads of compost to the acre ; the soil is sandy loam, and 

 was plowed once in June, quite shallow ; it was harrowed once ; 

 the cost of plowing and other preparation, fifty cents for the 



