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stalks produced from two to tliree ears eacli. I think 

 it ripens as early as the King Philip. Yield about 

 sixty bushels to the acre. 



SOLON CAETER'S STATEMENT. 

 WHEAT. 



The lot on which my wheat was raised contains two 

 acres and seventy-two and two-thirds rods. The soil is 

 a clayey loam upon a sub-soil of clay-pan^ with occa- 

 sional tight stones. The crop of 1856 was grass, with- 

 out manure ; that of 1857 corn, with about twenty-five 

 loads per acre of manure from my barn cellar. It was 

 plowed twice about the last of March, first by splitting 

 the hills, two furrows per row ; then plowed fine, six to 

 eight inches deep, harrowed once after splitting the 

 hills ; no manure was used. It was sowed broad 

 cast, April od, with two bushels per acre of coffee 

 wheat, and was reaped July 28th, bound and set in 

 bunches of from twelve to sixteen sheaves each, and 

 covered with cloth caps ; in this situation it remained 

 ten or twelve days when it was put in the barn. 



Cost of plowmg, &c., per acre, - - - $3,50 



" seed and sowiug, - - - - 4,00 



*' harvestmg, - - - - 6,50 



Total, per acre, - - - $14,00 



Product, as estimated by the Committee, 14 lbs. per 

 square rod, or 2240 lbs., or 37 1-3 bushels, of 60 lbs. per 

 acre- 



