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BERLIN.— Claimants, 3. Acres sown, 5^. Product, 93 bushels. 



Average, ISh bs. 

 Crops, 20i bs. ; 20 bs. 

 Remarks. 200 lbs. plaster spread ; crop injured by drought. 



BOLTON.— Claimants, 14. Acres sown, 234 bs. Product, 353^ bs. 



Average, 15 1-G bs. per acre. 



Crops, 21 bs.; 19i bs. ; 19 bs ; two of 16 bs. 

 Remarks. Largest crop with 20 loads of manure and 8 bushels of lime. 

 With 25 bushels ashes, product 16 bushels Crops suffered much by drought. 

 Several applications of lime ; the results are different, and determine noth- 

 ing as to its efficiency. 



BOYLSTON.— Claimants, 12. Acres sovvi!, 12. Product, 225 bs. 



Average, 181 bs. per acre. 



Crops, three of 21 J bs. ; two of 20 bs. : one of 18 bs. 

 Remarks. With 15 bushels ashes, the yield was 15 bushels. Crops of 

 2H bushels, with 8 loads of barn manure. The soil loamy. 



BROOKFIELD.— Claimants, 19. Acres sown, 2.5|. Product, 486i bs. 



Aveiage, 194. 



Crops, 28 bs. ; 20 bs. ; 25 bs. ; 24 bs. ; two of 22 bs. per ac. 



Remarks. — Largest crop without manure on sandy loam. Crop of 19J 



bushels had 7 loads of compost manure. Six bushels of lime, the crop 17^ 



bushels per acre. One case of grain insect. One rust. The hill lands in 



Brookfield, if properly cultivated, are favoraljle to wheat. 



CHARLTON.— Claimants, 16. Acres sown, 18^. Product, 337 bs. 



Average, ISi bushels per acre. 

 Crops, 23A bs.; 21 bs. ; 20 bs. ; three of 18 bs. 

 Remarks. Largest crop with "30 loads of summer manure, and 30 loads 

 of green manure." The land is designated dry or moist ; but the observa- 

 tions indefinite. 



DANA. — Claimants, 6. Acres sown as returned, 5J, the whole not reported. 

 Product, 100 bushels. 

 Average, 13 bs. 

 Largest crop, 15 bs. 

 Remarks. Two hundred lbs. of plaster applied, the crop, 11 bushels. 



DOUGLAS.— Claimants, 3. Acres sown, 4|. Product, 66^ 



Average, 13^ bs. 

 Largest crop, 17^ bs. 

 Remarks. Largest crop manured with 7 loads of long manure. 

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