1840.] SENATE— No. 36, 17 



Remarks. The largest crop with 1(5 bs of ashes. The crop of 22^ bs. 

 with thirty loads green barn manure, and seven bs. of lime. Another crop 

 ■of '22% bs. without manure. One case of grain insect. Soil " dry and vai ious." 



WENDELL.— Claimants, 2. Acres sown, 5. Product, 55^ bush. 



Average jjcracre, 11 bush. 

 Cro])s, 14;:^ bs. ; 9 bush, per acre. 



WHATELY.— Claimants, 4. Acres sown, 8. Product, 89 busk 



Average per acre, 1 1 ^ bush. 



Largest crops, IG bs. ; IJg bs. ; 10 bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. Largest cro]) had 12 bs. lime and ashes. One crop injured by 

 worm; tiu-ee by drought; ten bushels of lime per acre; yield nine bush. 

 Five loads of stable manure and six bs. of ashes ; crop, ten bush. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



AMHERST.— Claimants, 38. Acres sown, 7G 5-12. Product, 1211 busk 



Average per acre, 15 15-19 bushels. 



Largest Crops, 32 bs. ; 27 bs. ; 25^ bs. ; 24 bs. ; 23^ bs. ; 23 bs. ,• 



two 22 bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. 21 crops of winter wheat— one crop injured by grain-worm — 

 one by storm, without other accident or injury. Largest crop of 32 bushels 

 spring wheat — the other largest crops, winter wheat. The winter wheal, 

 sown between 15th Sept. and 2Gth Oct. One acre with 10 loads yard ma- 

 nure and 10 bush, of ashes — Crop 23 bush. One with 9 loads of muck— 

 Cro() 24 bush. Two crops'of 21 bush, each with 4 bush, of lime each. Lar- 

 gest crop, 32 bush, on an " old loam" ; no manure. Two cases of smut, seed 

 not prepared — one, where it was soaked ami limed ; but the kind of steep 

 not mentioned. The soil is various — gravelly, clay loam, and sandy loam^ 

 Two or three crops shrunk — one injured by storm. Spring wheat sowed 

 from 31st March to 3d May. 



BELCHERTOWN.— Claimants, 13. Acres sown, 3U. Product, 464i bs. 



Average per acre, 143 bushels. 



Largest crops, 22^ bs. ; 20 bs.; 12 bs per acre. 

 Remarks. The largest crop with barn-yard manure — quantity not stated. 

 Returns imperfect. 



CHESTERFIELD.— Claimants, 42. Acres sown, 85. Product, 1333 bush. 

 Average per acre, 15 J bushels. 



Largest crops, 25 bs. ; 21 bs. ; five 20 bs. ; four 19 bs. ; 

 seven 1 7 bs. per acre. 

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