1840.] SENATE— No 36. 29 



NORTH BROOKFIELD.— Claimants, 3. Acres sown, 4. Product, 60;! bs. 

 Average, 15 bs. per acre. 

 Kerlarks. Crop, 17^ bushels with two hogsheads of lime per acre. 



OAKHAM. — Claimants, 2. Acres sown, 1|. Product, 35 bush. 



Average, 20 bs. 

 Largest crop, 21^ bushels. 



OXFORD.— Claimants, 6. Acres sown, 7i. Product, 134 bushels. 



Average, 17 2-7 bs. per acre. 



Crops 34 bs. ; 18^ bs. 

 Remarks. Soil on which the largest crop, a gravelly soil ; but no ma- 

 nure. With thirty loads green manure, one bushel lime and 7 bushels of 

 ashes, on a gravelly soil, crop 15 bushels. Crops all sound. 



PETERSHAM.— Claimants, 49. Acres sown, 75i-. Product, 1304 bs. 



Average, 17;^ bs. per acre. 



Crops, 30 bs. ; two of 2G bs. ; one of 25 bs. ; 24 bs. 

 Remarks. The largest crop sown on 30th April ; clayey soil ; without 

 manure. The two crops of 2G bushels on a dry loam without manure; on 

 one, two bushels of lime applied. The crop of 25 bushels with 12 loads 

 green manure. Three cases of smut ; in each, the wheat sown dry. 



PHILLIPSTON.— Claimants, 31. Acres sown, 3i)h. Product, 722| bs. 

 Average, 184: bs. per acre. 



Largest crop 34 bs. ; two of 30 bs. ; one of 28 bs. ; three 

 of 22 bs. 

 Remarks. Largest crop on deep loam without manure. 

 One crop of 30 bush, on a clay loam with 2G loads of manure, 

 do. do. on light loam without manure, 



do. of 28 do. on " loamy land," without manure, 

 do. of 22 do. on " " with six loads green manure. 



Where 10 bushels of ashes spread at time of sowing the crop, IG bushels. 

 Six crops suffered from drought ; one by wire worm ; one sown May lOth, 

 by frost. 



PRINCETON.— Claimants, 38. Acres sown, 58^. " Product, 987 bs. 



Average, 17i| bs. per acre. 



Crops, 30 bs. ; 26 bs ; two of 25 bs.; three of 23 bs. ; one 

 of 22 bs. ; four of 21 bs. ; five of 20 bs. 

 Remarks. The crop of 30 bushels on a loamy soil without manure. 



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With 8 loads of rotten manure to the acre, crop 14 bushels. 



