CHOPS. 91 



OAT CROP. 

 STATEMENT OF ALBERT MONTAGUE. 



The acre of land on ^vllIch I raised my crop of oats, is a sandy 

 loam. I have planted it for two years previous. The first year upon 

 turf, manuring in the hill. Last year I plowed in twenty loads of 

 green manure, and put a little compost in the hill. My land was not 

 in condition to plow for spring grain, as early by fifteen days, as the 

 average of seasons. The crop was not as good as it would have been, 

 had the land been in condition to sow, as early as usual. I plowed 

 my land and sowed my oats, on the tenth of May. I sowed four 

 bushels to the acre. Unless sowed very thick, my oats are apt to 

 fall down. I harrowed thoroughly and then rolled them with a 

 heavy roller. I harvested, the 29th and 31st of July, and threshed 

 in September, and had sixty and one-half bushels. I cut them when 

 they were about one-half white. 



VALUE OF CROP. 



60 1-2 bushels of oats, $30 25 



1 1-2 tons of straw, 9 00 



$39 25 



EXPENSES. 



Plowing and sowing, . . • . • $2 00 



Seed, 2 00 



Harvesting and threshing, . . . . 4 50 



Interest on land, ...... 4 50 



- $13 00 



Net profit, $26 25 



Sunderland, Nov. 1, 1854. 



BEOOM-CORN CROPS.* 



STATEMENT OF AVERY D. HUBBARD. 



The land on which my crop of broom-corn was raised, contains just 

 one acre, and is a light sandy soil. In 1852, a crop of corn was 

 raised of about twenty bushels to the acre. In the fall of the same 

 year, it was sowed with rye and had a fair crop, of about ten bushels 

 to the acre. No manure of any kind was used on it, in 1853. Ihe 

 land is light and mellow ; and is easy to cultivate. Ten cart-loads 

 of compost manure were spread upon it, just before plowing.^ The 

 manure was made, the winter previous, in my hog-pen, which is 

 directly under my home barn. It is composed of about two parts of 



* The premiums on crops of Broom-Corn were awarded, as follows . lo 

 Avery D. Hubbard, $4, and to KeUta Hubbard, $2, both of Sunderland. 



