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• ~ WHEAT AND RYE. 



CYRUS KILBTJRXS STATEMENT. 

 WINTER WHEAT: 



I raised my wheat on a clayey loam soil, plowed 

 about seven inches deep ; applied only one barrel of 

 superphosphate, and Sept. 22d sowed two bushels of 

 blue stem winter wheat, and cradled it the last of July. 

 The crop was injured by the herds grass sowed with it. 

 By repeated experiments I am convinced that no grass 

 seed should be sowed with winter wheat till the next 

 spring, the grass being more hardy will start first and 

 check the wheat. I think this an important item in 

 the successful cultivation of winter wheat. The 

 amount of wheat was twenty-four bushels to the acre, 

 and about one ton of straw. 



Cost of Phosphate §7,00 



" " Plowing 5,00 



" " Seed and sowing 8,00 



" "^Harvesting 6,00 



$26,00 



ALONZO P. GOODKIDGE'S STATEMENT. 



RYE. 



The soil on which I raised my spring rye was a sandy 

 loam, on which in 1862 and '63 I raised corn; and was 

 plowed six inches deep, and rye sowed about the 1st 

 of May ; one and one-fourth bushels of seed was used 

 to the acre ; it was reaped 26th of July, and the acre 

 yielded 1600 pounds, being about 28J bushels to the 

 acre. 



Cost of Plowing S3, 00 



" " Sowing 3,00 



« » Seed 2,00 



>• « Harvesting..... 6,00 



$14,00 



