78 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



RYE. 

 PLYMOUTH. 



[Statement of James Howard of West Bridgewater.] 



The lot, containing one hundred and sixty-eight rods, on 

 which my rye grew the present year, is very uneven, both in 

 surface and in the quality of the soil ; varying from a loose, 

 sandy hill-soil on one side, to a low, dark loam on the other. 

 In corn in 1875, manured with four cords of compost ; and 

 in potatoes in 1876, manured with four cords of stable- 

 manure, ploughed in, and with a compost of bone and pot- 

 ash in the hill. In September, 1876, it was ploughed about 

 five inches deep ; four hundred pounds of ground bone mixed 

 with four barrels of wood-ashes, spread on and harrowed in, 

 and sown to rye, using seven pecks of seed. In April, 1877, 

 one bag of Stockbridge manure was sown on the piece. ' 

 Harvested July 10. When threshed, there were 5,680 pounds 

 of straw, and 2,246i pounds of rye, being at the rate of 

 thirty-eight bushels and one-fifth per acre. My cows acci- 

 dentally got into my rye twice, injuring it, I think, about two 

 bushels. Expenses : ploughing, &c., three dollars ; manure, 

 nineteen dollars ; seed and sowing, four dollars ; harvesting, 

 seventeen dollars and a half: total, forty-three dollars and 

 a half. 



[Statement of Edward White of Marshfield.] 



The crop of rye that Mr. White offers in competition for a 

 premium was grown upon one acre of the central portion of 

 the diked marsh-land on Green Harbor River. It was in rye 

 in 1876, and again sown in September for this crop, using 

 one bushel of seed. It was ploughed about six inches deep, 

 and harrowed twice each year. No manure or fertilizer has 



