TRANSACTIONS. 141 



To the Committee on Crops : 



Gentlemen — The laud; on wliicli I raised a crop of rye 

 enteredfor a premium, measures oue hundred and sixty-two 

 rods ; soil, sandy loam ; was ploughed in the spring of 1854, 

 with the Michigan plow, ten or eleven inches deep, and 

 well manured, and planted with corn ; yield, ninety-eight 

 bushels; ploughed again in the fall of 1854, and in the fol- 

 lowing spring spread on ten cords of green manure from 

 the barn cellar, and ploughed it under ten inches deep, and 

 planted with Chenango potatoes; yield, two hundred and 

 seventy bushels ; ploughed again about the middle of Sep- 

 tember, eight inches deep, and sowed five pecks of rye j 

 then harrowed, and sowed one peck and a half of herds- 

 grass seed, and rolled the piece without harrowing in the 

 grass seed. I would say that the set of herds grass in 

 October looked the best of any I ever saw; the grass was 

 very thick and was nearly a foot high. I harvested the 

 rye about the 20th of July. 



The expenses of raising the crop were as follows : 

 Plowing, $2 50 



Harrowing, sowing and rolling, 1 00 



Harvesting, threshing and cleaning, 6 00 



Seed, . 1 75 



Interest on land, and taxes, 6 50 



Total expenses, $17 75 



"Value of the crop is as follows : 



32 1-2 bushels at $1-12 1-2 per bushel, $36 50 



Two tons of straw, IG 00 



$52 50 

 Expenses deducted, 17 75 



. Net profit, $34 75 



The piece of land, on which I raised my crop of potatoes 

 entered for a premium, measures two hundred and sixteen 



