WHEAT. 



69 



EPHEAIM GRAHAM'S STATEMENT. 

 WHEAT. 



The quantity of land was one acre. Crop of 1862 

 grass ; 1863 the same, and without manure each year ; 

 the soil black loam and clay sub-soil ; plowed Aug. 20th 

 about seven inches deep, rolled and harrowed ; twenty- 

 five loads compost manure to one acre; the quantity of 

 seed two bushels to the acre, known by the name of 

 blue stem; sowed broadcast Aug. 29th; harvested July 

 20th 1864 ; bound and stooked, carted to the barn and 

 stowed. 



Cost of Plowing and other preparation $10,50 



" < ; Manure 33,00 



" " Seed and sowing 5,00 



" " Harvesting and threshing 12,00 



$60,50 



Product 1760 lbs. of wheat, or 291 bushels, and about 

 one ton of straw. 



The manure used was taken from the barn cellar, 

 made from three cows, two oxen, one horse, and two 

 swine, from the first of June to the 25th of August^ 

 incorporated with loam, and one hundred bushels leached 

 ashes ; the furrows rolled smoothly before spreading the 

 manure, and harrowed with cultivating harrow, after 

 which the land was bushed and rolled. It appears 

 that the whole expense of cultivation and harvesting 

 amounts to $60,50, and the value of the product inclu- 

 ding the straw : 25 bushels at $2,75 per bushel, $68,75; 

 value of straw $10,25, making $7J,00, which gives a 

 balance in favor of crop of $8,50. 



