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WHEAT CKOP. 



STATEMENT OF D. D. &, J. WHITTEMORE, Jn. 



Our crop of wheat was raised in Sunderland on one acre and forty- 

 one rods of ground. In 1851, the piece was sown with barley and 

 seeded with clover. About the 12th of September, we ploughed in 

 the second crop of clover and sowed two varieties of wheat, viz : bald 

 and bearded white flint — one bushel of the first and one and a half 

 bushels of the last, and harrowed well. Early in the spring, we 

 sowed three bushels of salt, two and a half bushels of plaster, and five 

 barrels of slacked oyster-shell lime. Our wheat suffered from the 

 severe winter and from the drought in summer. We judged that forty 

 per cent, was Avinter killed. "We harvested in July, and for want of 

 barn room, had it threshed immediately by hand. Consequently wo 

 lost a large per cent., by its being left in the straw. The quantity 

 thus lost, was estimated at from three to five bushels. Of the bearded., 

 we had nineteen bushels, and of the bald six bushels, or twenty-five 

 bushels of wheat, perfectly free from rye and all foul seeds. 



Net profit, $44 03 



Sunderland, Nov. 8, 1854. 



COBN CHOPS. 

 STATEMENT OF AUSTIN L. CLARK. 



The piece of com, I offer for premium, contains one acre of land. 

 'It was an old pasture, that was never plowed, within the memory of 

 the " oldest inhabitant." In May, I plowed it about six inches deep, 

 turning in ten loads of barnyard manure. I then harrowed in eight 

 loads of compost manure. On the 20th of May, it was planted. 

 Eight bushels of leached ashes were dropped in the hill. The corn 

 was hoed twice. The hills wore not raised, and were three feefc^apart 

 each way. The soil w-as a clayey loam. On the 14th of September 

 the crop was harvested. 



