150 MASSACHUSETTS AGKICULTURE. 



Cost of Crop. 



Ploughing and sowing, $4 50 



Seed rye, . . 1 25 



Grass-seed, . 1 75 



Cutting and stacking, 6 00 



Threshing, 4 00 



Ashes, 5 00 



Total cost, $23 50 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of James Howard. 



Rye. — My rye field, measuring one acre, has a rolling 

 surface, and the soil is hard, gravelly and very stony. The 

 crop of 1873 was potatoes, with five cords of barn-manure 

 ploughed in. That of 1874 was, on one-half Hungarian 

 grass, without manure, and on the other half, corn, with a 

 dressing of barn-manure ploughed in, and a small quantity 

 of bone and ashes in the hills. October 2, 1874, manure to 

 the amount of seventeen loads of thirty bushels each, was 

 ploughed in six inches deep, and five pecks of rye sowed and 

 harrowed in, and rolled, October 5. In April, 1875, 350 

 pounds of low grade German potash was spread upon two- 

 thirds of the piece, and seventeen bushels of uuleached ashes 

 upon the other third. A difference in favor of the potash 

 became apparent in the growth of the rye, within two weeks, 

 and continued to be so until harvest, and there is now, 

 November 1, an equally perceptible difference in the clover, 

 from the seed sown npon the surface in April. The rye was 

 mowed, bound and shocked July 19, and threshed August 

 7-10. Product: 1,695 pounds, or 30l-| bushels of rye, and 

 2,700 pounds of straw, which sold for $33.75. 



Expense of Crop. 



Ploughing and other preparation, $7 00 



Manure, 33 63 



Seed and sowing, 2 38 



Harvesting, . 14 00 



Total, $57 01 



