hich I used some manure, all over the field; top-dressed with
Peruvian guano, at the rate of 300 lbs. per acre, sown (fortunately
just before a storm,) upon the furrow and harrowed in with the
wheat. Four acres of the field were sown with the old-fashioned red
flint wheat, which requires more manure than any other kind among
us. The rest of the field was sown with a soft white hulled wheat,
the name of which I do not remember. July 5, 1848.--Harvested said
field--Red wheat yielded well from straw, 14 sheaves to the
bushel--white wheat 20 sheaves to the bushel--straw very large and
thick. Had 164 bushels of wheat, or 41 bushels per acre; and 58
bushels of white wheat or 29 bushels per acre; without the guano I
think I could not have obtained much over 20 bushels per
acre.--1848, Oct. 2. Again sowed wheat upon a six acre lot of oat
stubble; seed red flint wheat--manured about the same as previous
year--used 300 lbs. guano per acre, as top-dressing for 4 acres and
moss bunker fish dirt at the rate of 10,000 per acre upon the two
acres, sowed upon the furrow, and harrowed in just previous to a
storm--Harvested the 10th of July 1849. The straw very large, and
wheat heads long, but grain very much injured by fly or
weevil--very little difference between fish and guano top-dressing;
yield 188 shocks--175 bushels; not quite 30 bushels per acre. Same
ground would not have produced more than 18 to 20 bushels wheat per
acre without the guano--or some other more expensive manure. 1849.
Oct. 3. Sowed wheat upon oat stubble field; soil thin and gravelly
upon part of the field--used some barnyard manure, but not as much
as previous year. Top-dressed with 300 lbs. guano and 12 bushels
ground bones per acre--Harvested 12th July 1850--Yield of 5-1/2
acres 160 shocks; injured some by weevil, and shrunken, but had 145
bushels or twenty-six bushels per acre. This ground would not have
yielded fifteen bushels per acre without the guano. But the most
decisive result was obtained the next year, upon an oat stubble
field of six acres, a part of which had been cropped, for perhaps
15 years, nearly alternately with rye and buckwheat; (sometimes a
crop of each in one year.) The whole field seemed so far exhausted
that we had failed to get a crop of corn or oats from it after two