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HADLEY.— Claimants, 59. ^Acres sown, 140 19-24. Product, 18131 l>ush. 



Average per acre, \2 5-7 bushels. 



Largest ci-ops, 2 Ji bs. ; two of 2i bs. ; one 21^ bs. ; two 20 bs. 



per acre. 

 Remarks. Largest crop without manure ; six busli. lime applied ; blasted. 

 Nineteen crops of winter wheat ; one injured by winter. Two cases of smut ; 

 seed rolled in lime, not steeped. Two cases of Italian wheat ; one kept in 

 brine 30 hours ; one said to have been injured by steeping. This agrees with 

 the experience of some of tiie farmers of Northampton, who think that the 

 seed of the Italian wheat, being thin skinned, is injured by remaining a 

 long time in tiie brine. The Italian, in this case, yielded but 2{ bush — the win- 

 ter wheat, on the same farm, sowed Sept. 2'i, produced 10 bush, per acre. Three 

 cases in this town of the cultivation of 5 acres and upwards by a single firm- 

 er. The soil a sandy loam and alluvial — one case with 20 busli. lime, plas- 

 ter and ashes per acre — crop blasted. 



HATFIELD.— Claimants, 39. Acres sown, 102. Product, 1559 bush. 



Average per acre, 14 1-5 bush. 



Largest crops, 25i bs. ; 2:3^ bs. ; 22 2-13 bs. ; 201 bs. ; 

 20 2-5 bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. Largest crop on alluvial, rich loam ; six bush, ashes. Crop in- 

 jured by clover sowed with it. Another crop is stated to have been much 

 injured by grass, (we su[)pose, sowed with it.) Three cases of winter wheat, 

 from quarter to half killed by winter. Seventeen cases of winter wheat re- 

 ported ; most of them in same field with spring wheat, but no comparative 

 results given, except as above. Several cases reported in which a |iart of the 

 field niaiiured and part without manure; yet no comparative results given, 

 but all reported as one. These were favorable cases lor determining impor- 

 tant points ; but we are left in the dark. A crop sowed Wih Nov. gave heavy 

 growth of straw, but "did not fill." 



It is much to be lamented, that, with the Hatfield farmers among the best 

 in the State, with so many fiivorable opportunities of arriving at important 

 comparative results, the accounts are not definite and e.-tablish nothing. 



MIDDLEFIELD.— Claimants, 14. Acres sown, 18 G-8 Product, 282 bush. 

 Average per acre, 15 5-18 bush. 



Largest crops, 21 b.s. ; 20 bs. ; 18 b.>. ; 10 bush. pr. acre. 

 Remarks. Largest crop with seven loads manure and seven bs. of lii7ie, 

 Applications of lime in small quantities; but no decisive result. One case 

 of smut ; seed rolled in lime ; not steeped. 



NORTHAMPTON.— Claimants, 59. Acres 170 5-12. Product, 1938^ bush. 

 Average per acre, 10 21-22 bush. 

 Largest crops, 20 bs. ; 19^ bs. ; 18 bs.; two of 17^ 

 bush, per acre. 



