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Expense ^c. of crop. 



Produce : 46f| bushels of rye at 5s $29 03 



Value of straw, 4 50 



33 53 



Expense: Three days plowing, $4 50 



One and three quarters bu. seed, 1 09 



Six loads manure, 3 00 



One days harrowing, 1 50 



Four days harvesting, ^ • 4 00 



Threshing,...., 3 00 



Interest on land, 2 10 



^ 19 19 



Profit of one acre of rye, .' $14 34 



Westmoreland, Oneida co. 



OATS.- 



There was one competitor only on oats. 



The first premium was awarded to Elias T. Ayres, of Tompkins 

 county, on two acres producing one hundred and eighty three 

 bushels and three pecks or ninety-one bushels and twenty-eight 

 quarts per acre. 



The competitors for spring wheat, barley and oats have given 

 nearly the same statements. The previous crop corn or potatoes, 

 highly manured, plowed once in the spring, seed sown and har- 

 rowed in. RAWSON HARMON. 



E. J. AYRES. 



To the jVew-York State Agricultural Society: 



Living in a grain-growing district, where wheat, oats and corn 

 produce abundantly with good cultivation ; some of my neighbors 

 and myself have endeavored to improve the cultivation, and conse- 

 quently the production of the above mentioned crops, and some 

 others, by various experiments. 



Among which I had in corn, this season, one acre, which produced 

 88 bushels ; and two acres of oats, which produced 183 bushels and 

 24 quarts, or 91 bushels 28 quarts per acre. 



The latter of which, that on oats, I propose to submit to our State 

 Society as a competitor for a premium. 



The ground, on which the above mentioned crop of oats grew, was 

 a gravelly loam, inclining to muck. The soil has not been analyzed, 

 therefore I am not able, accurately, to give its constituent parts. 

 The ground the previous year (1844) was tilled with corn ; about 60 

 bushels to the acre, and was manured, in the spring of that year, with 



