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for carting in the summer time, when you are busy. I un- 

 derstand that Mr. Bradley offered to sell tons and tons of it 

 for three dollars a ton to anybody, where he manufactures his 

 pliosphates. 



Mr. Hall. I would like to inquire what the principal crop 

 is in that section that is turned off to market ? 



Mr. WakemaN. Onions is the principal crop there. There 

 are a great many potatoes raised, and a good many farmers, 

 within a few years, have gone into small fruits. 



Question. I would like to inquire whether the gentleman 

 has used, very extensively, fish manure? 



Mr. Wakeman. For two or three years, I and my two 

 brothers, probably used fifteen or twenty tons ; perhaps fifty 

 tons in all. 



Mr. Gould. I would like to make a statistical inquiry. I 

 should like to know what is the maximum length of the straw 

 crop. What is the greatest length of straw that has been 

 known to grow in Connecticut, and what is the greatest length 

 of head ? And in asking the question, I will state what the 

 fact is, so far as the state of New York is concerned. The 

 longest straw that I have ever known to grow in the state of 

 New Yoik, was grown in 1871, eight feet and four inches; 

 and the greatest length of head, eight and one-fourth inches. 

 I should like to know if any gentleman present has known of 

 anything longer than that for straw or head ? I saw a field 

 this Spring, of some ten acres, the heads of which would 

 average eight and one-fourth inches. 



Question. How much rye to the acre ? 



Mr. Gould. About twenty-five bushels. 



Mr. Blakeslee. In 1816, I had a licld of rye, the heads 

 of which, I should think, (I didn't measure them,) grew from 

 six to eight inches in length, with six rows of kernels. From 

 two bushels of seed, I harvested sixty-nine bushels of rye. 

 Rye generally has four rows of kernels, but these heads had 

 six. I sow^ed this rye on the poorest piece of ground I had. 

 I sowed a bushel to the acre. I don't believe anything near 

 that could be raised on it again. That was the biggest crop 



ever saw. 



