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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



two hundred and twenty-nine and one-half bushels, weighing 

 fifty-six pounds to the bushel, one hundred and sixty bushels of 

 which were sold for $1.50 per bushel ; eleven tons of straw, 

 eight tons of which were sold at an average price of sixteen 

 dollars per ton. 



The crop is charged with one-third part of the manure used 

 on the land in the cultivation of the two preceding crops, 



Valued at $112 00 



Ploughing, at $3 per acre, 23 00 



8 bushels of seed at cost, . . . . . 10 00 



Sowing and harrowing, ...... 7 50 



Harvesting, ........ 25 00 



Four men threshing 12 days, . . . . . 48 00 



Expenses, $225 50 



Value of 2291 bushels of rye, at $1.50 per bushel, $344 25 

 Value of 11 tons of straw, at $16 per ton, . . 176 00 



Value of crop, $520 25 



225 50 



Leaving a profit of 



. $294 75 

 Adino Page, Chairman. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



Statement of Georg^e Dickinson. 



. My crop of rye grew on three acres and twenty-seven rods of 

 first quality meadow land. The yield was eighty-eight bushels 

 twenty quarts, or twenty-eight bushels per acre. The land for 

 two years previously was planted to Indian corn, with about 

 twelve loads of manure per acre. After the corn was cut and 

 stacked, the ground was ploughed from eight to ten inches deep, 

 and was sown, the 18th and 20tli of September, with three bush- 

 els of seed. 



The crop was harvested the last of July, and threshed the 

 last of August. 



