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for the pui'posG of ascertaining the accuracy of the statement 

 made by him respecting his crop of corn. 



The field measures 133 rods, from which 147 baskets of 

 corn, on the ear, were gathered, measuring, when shelled, 20^^ 

 quarts per basket, and weighing 37 lbs., making 5,439 lbs., 

 which, divided by 56 lbs., the society's standard for the bushel, 

 gives 97 bushels, equal to 117 bushels to the acre. 



As a part of this corn had already been removed, the com- 

 mittee could not strictly verify Mr. Ruggles' account of the 

 number of ..baskets brought from the field. They have, however, 

 no reason to doubt its. accuracy; and it is substantially cor- 

 roborated by Mr. Breck's admeasurement of the bin soon after 

 the corn was placed there. Thomas Motley. 



■* Cheever Newhall. 



December 8, 1853. 



Milton, November 12, 1853. 

 To J. P. Jones, Esq., Chairman, 6^'c. 



Inclosed you will receive the statement of B. F. Dudley, on 

 rye, and those of J. R. Dow and P. Ruggles, on corn, and as you 

 requested me, being in the neighborhood, to examine them, and 

 communicate what information I could obtain respecting them, 

 I submit the following: — The land on which Mr. Dudley's rye 

 was raised, as he states, was called worn-out plain, and fifty 

 dollars per acre would have been called a high price for it for 

 cultivation. It has been mostly used for pasture for many 

 years, although sometimes cultivated, but never, to my knowl- 

 edge, with much success until the present year. As you will 

 perceive by his statement, it was not a selected part of his 

 field that was taken to estimate from, but the whole taken 

 together ; and, as I often examined the field, I think it would 

 have been difficult to have selected one acre better than the 

 rest, as it was very even, and all good. After the grain was 

 harvested, and the quantity reported, I measured the ground, and 

 found it to contain two acres, three roods, seven rods, as given 

 in his statement, which, as I reckoned it, is at the rate of 47|- 

 bushels per acre. The rye, after reaping, was stooked in the 

 field for some time, and then carted near to the barn and stacked 

 out for some weeks, then taken into the barn and threshed, audi 



