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together — about one-third rye — one acre and twenty-five rods. 

 The average yield on this was seventy-five bushels to the acre — 

 weight, thirty-five pounds to the bushel. 



The lower part of the piece, two acres and sixty-four rods, I 

 sowed with oats, the average of which was seventy-four and one- 

 third bushels to the acre — the weight of which was thirty-one 

 pounds to the bushel. 



The whole piece of land is three acres and eighty -nine rods ; 

 and the average yield, on the whole piece, rye and oats, and 

 clear oats, was seventy-four and one-half, and a fraction over, 

 bushels to the acre. 



The above statement presents a fact worth knowing, it seems 

 to me ; for if one can obtain more bushels, and likewise more 

 weight, by mixing rye with his oats, it pays to do it ; and this 

 was done, too, on the upper part of the field, where one would 

 expect to get the lightest yield. 



The piece of land was manured all alike the year before, and 

 not with the expectation of a premium crop. Last year it was 

 turned over greensward and planted with corn. Spread on sev- 

 enty-eight loads of green manure, from the stable, and put half 

 a shovelful of compost hi the hill. And you will here notice 

 that the stable manure was made by one of my new-fangled no- 

 tions, of allowing my cattle to stand on the manure, and bed or 

 litter with sawdust and turning shavings, mostly, — and they 

 were almost wholly made of white pine, the turpentine of which 

 is said to be so injurious to vegetation. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



Statement of Albert Montague. 



The acre of sandy loam, upon which I raised oats, was in 

 corn last year, and yielded a fair crop. In 1854, 1 ploughed in 

 fifteen loads of green manure, and put a little compost in the 

 hill. In the fall, after the corn was harvested, I ploughed about 

 eight inches deep, and sowed oats early in the f nring of 1855 — 

 25th of April — at the rate of four bushels to the acre. I har- 

 vested, the 8th of August, and threshed in September. 



