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Amory Davidson's Statement. 

 The acre of land on which my wheat was raised is a grav- 

 elly or rather cobbly loam. It was planted two years previ- 

 ous, — the first year on the sod and manured in the hill with 

 a small shovelfull of compost from my barnyard. Last year 

 I ploughed in twenty-four cart loads of green manure from my 

 barn cellar, and manured in the hill same as the year before. 

 This year I washed my seed and let it soak twenty-four hours, 

 then stirred in slacked lime and plaster to separate it, and 

 sowed two bushels of the coffee id heat to the acre, and harrowed 

 it in thoroughly, bushed and rolled the ground down flat and 

 smooth. After it was up about four inches high, sowed on 

 three hundred pounds of plaster. Harvested the middle of 

 August and had 32 3-4 bushels to the acre, by measure, or a 

 fraction over 34 by weight, which weighs 62 1-2 pounds to 

 the bushel. It was cut before the straw was turned fully yel- 

 low. My seed cost me three dollars per bushel, and I reckon 

 the same price on the crop, as I had promised, for seed for an- 

 other year, all I have to spare at the same price, before it was 

 harvested. 



Value of crop, 34 bushels Wheat, $102 00 



1 ton Straw, 8 00 



$110 00 



Expenses, 



23 30 



Balance in favor of Crop, $S6 70 

 AMORY DAVIDSON. 

 Sterling, 1S55. 



