34 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. [March, 



One case of injury from smut ; seed soaked in brine and limed. 

 Two " " « «' limed. 



" " " " " without preparation. 



BOXLBORO'.— Claimants, 2. Acres sown, 4. Product, 45 bushels. 



Average per acre, 11| bs. 



Crop, 13 3-5 bs. ; 10 2-1 1 bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. Both crops with green manure, 8 loads per acre ; one suf- 

 ered from drought. 



CHELMSFORD.— Claimants, 2. Acres sown, 5. Product, 83 bushels. 

 Average per acre, IG 3-5 bs. 

 Crops, 21 ; 9 bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. This largest crop on intervale land on the Merrimack. 20 cords 

 of manure applied the previous year. The crop injured by drought. This 

 farmer has been eminently successful in his wheat crop on his lands for 

 twenty years. The soil, as analyzed by Dr. Dana, the result given in the 

 Commissioner's Second Report, is destitute of the carbonate of lime, and 

 contains a slight portion of lime, in the form of sulphate and phosphate. H. C. 

 Seed wheat, soaked in lime water, and rolled in plaster. The smaller 

 crop was on a highly manured " light soil," and very much injured by 

 drought. 



CONCORD.— Claimants, 6. Acres sown, 15^. Product, 137^ bushels. 



Average per acre, 8 13-15 bushels. 



Crops, 25 bs. ; lOi bs. ; 10 bs. ; 6| bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. — ^In largest crop, land manured with stable dung the previous 

 year, and 2? casks of lime applied to the acre. Soil, a dark loam. All the 

 crops suffered from drought. From the raiser of crop above referred to, it 

 is presumed it was on the margin of the finely redeemed meadows in this 

 town, where the soil is deep and full of vegetable matter. H. C. 



DRACUT. — Claimants, 8. Acres sown, ioi. Product, 174,i busliels. 



Average per acre, 1 1 bs. 



Largest crops, two of 20 bs. ; 12 3-10 bs. ; 1 1| bs per acre. 

 Remarks. One crop of 20 bushels received .50 loads of barn manure, and 

 one cask of lime. The crop injured by grain insect. Some smut likewise - 

 the seed soaked in water and roiled in ashes. The soil alluvial, on the 

 banks of the Merrimack. In another case, 30 loads of manure and 2 hhds. 

 of lime ; the crop, 10 2-5 bushels. In another case of 20 bushels per acre, "a 

 light intervale," no manure applied. With this exception, the crops all repre- 

 sented as " shrunk." 



DUNSTABLE.— Claimants, 3. Acres sown, 3 97-165. Product, 62 bs. 

 Average per acre. 16^ bs. 

 Crops, 1 9 bs. ; 1 7 bs. ; 15 bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. Nothing definite stated ; and no accident nor injury. 



