276 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Oats, fair ; yield about 37 bushels to acre. On same kind 

 of land as rye. 



Barley and buckwheat, none. 



Corn, on good land well manured, manure harrowed in, 

 yield small. Not yet picked. Should estimate yield about 

 50 bushels to acre, about two-thirds our usual crop. 



Potatoes, on good land after corn, land harrowed down 

 smooth and planted on level, yield about 150 bvishels per 

 acre. 



Onions, none. Broom corn and beans, none. 



Tobacco, 1 acre, yield estimated about 1,600 pounds per 

 acre. On turf well manured and harrowed down, kept free 

 from weeds. Planted two feet by three. 



My business confines me at home (mercliant) and I hare 

 not time to look up all the information I would wish to 

 give you. There is not one in twenty can give any definite 

 information in regard to crops, and it is rather up-hill work 

 to guess at it on your own hook. 



R. S. HiNMAN, Riverside. 



Wheat is grown with us but to a limited extent, as our 

 mills are not adapted to making good wheat flour. Rye is 

 grown quite extensively. The straw sells readily for cash, 

 sometimes higher than hay. The average yield is about eight 

 bushels, though it might be much more. Most of our farm- 

 ers use no manure on rye as it will grow on thin land with- 

 out, but I think this a great mistake. I prefer it to any other 

 grain crop to seed down with for meadow. I would rather 

 have ten loads per acre of barn yard manure harrowed in 

 with rye, than thirty loads applied as most of our farmers do 

 before planting corn, to be followed by a crop of oats and then 

 meadow. My rye is mostly grown on land that needs renova- 

 ting. My plan is to cut brush when the ground is frozen if 

 possible, and early in spring haul off loose stones if there are 

 any and plow. Cross plow in June and again in the last of 

 August. Sow the first of September. I plow my rye in mak- 

 ing four plowings, then apply the manure and harrow, after 

 which I sow timothy and red top and harrow again, the fol- 



