GRAIN. 



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with a harrow, hushed and rolled ; reaped hy hand from 

 the 10th to the 15th of August. ^ 



No manure was used for the present crop. 



Cost of plowing, &c., - - - - - $5,00 



Seed and sowing, . - . - _ 3^75 



Harvesting, - - - - - - 9,00 



Total, $17,75 



Produce^ 21671 lbs. wheat, weighed September 11; 

 and li tons straw. 



CYRUS KILBURN'S STATEMENT. 



WHEAT. 



The lot on which my wheat grew, contained 199 rods; 

 is a clayey loam; the crop of 1858 and 1859 was corn, 

 with twenty-five loads barn-yarn manure each year ; it 

 was plowed once five to six inches deep ; harrowed ; 

 three or four loads of coarse manure spread on a strip 

 of wet springy land ; sowed the last week in Sept. 1859 

 with two bushels per acre of blue stem winter wheat, 

 reaped the last of July, bound, stooked twenty-five 

 sheaves to a stock, covered with large hay caps, and 

 when dry, carted to the barn and threshed from the cart 

 with a threshing machine. 



The wheat on the wet strip, fifteen to eighteen square 

 rods, proved almost a failure, being thrown out by the 

 frost. 



Cost of plowing, &c., - . - - - $5,00 



Manure, . - - - - - 4,00 



Seed and sowing, - - - - -6,00 



Harvesting, - - - - - - 11,00 



Total, ----- $26,00 



Produce, 2476 lbs. wheat, weighed August 3d; and 

 two tons straw. 



