1840.] SENATE— No. 36. 9 



Remarks. Crop of 28 bush, with four bushels of lime per acre. Of 21 

 bushels with 25 loads of manure in 1837. One case of ashes, the crop 14 2-5 

 bushels per acre. One case of smut: the seed limed, but not soaked in 

 brine. 



LANESBORO'.— Claimants, 45. Acres sown, 85 1. Product, 1183^ bs. 

 Average crop, 13 bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. With 100 bushels lime per acre, the yield ]1| bushels per 

 acre. Saltpetre and lime applied, but quantities not given. Yield 15 bush- 

 els. In one case, land manured the year of the wheat. Plaster in 16 cases, 

 1 to li bushels per acre. No definite results. 



LEE.— Claimants, 29. Acres sown, 59 1 Product 80G^ bushels. 



Average crop, 13| bs. per acre. 

 Crops, 2G| bs.; 24 bs. ; two of 18| bs. 

 Remarks. With 20 bushels lime to 1^ acre, crop 11:^ bushels; suffered 

 from drought Three ap])lications of plaster, but no perceptible result. 

 With four bushels of ashes to the acre, the crop 125 bushels; suffered from 

 drought. On the same farm, one acre of spring wheat, gave 18 bushels; 2 

 of winter wheat, 5 bushels each. Three cases of grain insect ; one of rust 

 from late sowing ; one of smut ; the seed soaked in brine, and rolled in 

 plaster. 



LENOX.— Claimants, 50. Acres sown, 108:^. Product, 1413 bushels. 

 Average crop, 13A bs. per acre. 

 Crops, 26 bs. ; three of 20 bs. per acre; two of 18 bs. 



Remarks. Crop of 26 bushels, with si.x loads yard manure, and ten bush- 

 els of lime and ashes, amount not stated; sown on 30th April. Soil, a dark 

 loam. Prevailing rocks of this locality, mica slate.— A second piece on the 

 same farm, with six loads of barn manure, and ten bushels of lime, and two 

 bushels of plaster, produced 12^1 bushels to the acre ; sown on 22d May. 



This farmer, Eldad Post, harrows his wheat repeatedly, after sowing, even 

 after it has germinated ; considers the exposure of the seed and soil to light 

 and air, highly beneficial. His cultivation usually successful ; two years 

 since, his spring wheat was more than 34 bushels peracre.^Results in these 

 returns quite various. One acre, with five bushels lime, and two bushels of 

 gypsum, produced 11| bushels to the acre. One with 60 bushels lime, 13 

 bushels wheat. Twelve cases of grain insect; four worm at the root. One 

 of smut; seed rolled in lime, but not soaked in brine. 



NEW ASH FORD.— Claimants, 12. Acres sown, 22. Product, 366 bs. 

 Average crop, 16 7-11 bs. per acre. 

 Crops, 20 bs.; 16 bs. 

 Remarks. Excepting one case, manured previous year. Six crops 

 « shrunk." 



