CROPS. ^ 



TURNINa IN QKEEN CROPS, 



KELITA HUBBARD'S STATEMENT. 



I have practised, for several years, turning in rye for manure. My 

 land has nearly doubled in value. I can raise two bushel of potatoes, 

 corn or rye, where I could raise but one a few years ago. I plough 

 my land as soon as convenient after harvest, when my cattle have lit- 

 tle to do. The feed in the fall pays for ploughing and scod. I turn 

 in the rye crop in the spring, and think it is equal to live loads of 

 manure to the acre. This operation destroys the v.^ed.?, pulverizes 

 the soil, and saves much labor in the cultivation of the next crop. 



CROPS. 



DR. DAVID RICE'S REPORT. 



The Hampshire Agricultural Society offers premiums for the best 

 crops — not to encourage farmers to raise great crops, regardless of ex- 

 pense, on their best lands, but rather, with economy, to raise the best 

 and largest crops, at a reasonable cost of land, labor and manure. 

 No premium is offered for crops raised on new lands which contain, 

 usually, all the elements for large crops. This agricultural association 

 offers premiums on crops, with reference to the value and condition of 

 the land; the mode of husbandry; the time of plowing ; the depth 

 ftnd the number of times ; the kind and cost of manures, and how 

 tod when applied ; time of planting and sowing, — variety of seed 

 used, mode of culture, when and how harvested, the whole cost, and 

 value of the crop, and requires a full and faithful statement from each 

 competitor. A medium crop, grown on not the best soil, by econom- 

 ical and skilful husbandry, may justly obtain a higher premium, than 

 & very large crop, raised on tlie same, or on very valuabl: land, at a 

 great cost of labor, foreign manures, &-c. Some lands are so rich, 

 and so well adapted to particular crops, that neither skill, nor ma- 

 aure, and but a moderate amount of labor, is needed to make them 



