RYE. 



199 



after the spring of 1851, and then it was put in the hill for 

 broomcorn. The rye was sown on the 8th of September, at 

 the rate of one bushel to the acre, and harvested on the 15th of 

 July. The land was ploughed deep, and thoroughly harrowed. 



Value of crop : — 



331 bushels rye, at $1, . 

 2,900 pounds of straw, at $G per ton, 



Expenses : — 

 Seed, . . . . , 

 Ploughing, harrowing, and sowing, 

 Harvesting, .... 

 Threshing, .... 

 Interest on land, 



Net profit, 



Sunderland, October 22, 1853. 



$42 20 



13 50 



$28 70 



HOUSATONIC. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Twenty-five pieces of rye were offered for our inspection. 

 The winter, and the season also, has been very favorable for 

 this crop. Of the twenty-five pieces, not one but would ordi- 

 narily be entitled to a premium. Such fields of rye your com- 

 mittee have no recollection of ever seeing. 



Statemetit of Luther S. Butler. 



The piece contains six acres, old pasture, ploughed once, and 

 sowed 10th September, one and a half bushel seed to the acre, 

 no manure used; soil, clayey loam; measured and threshed 

 one acre ; had forty bushels and four quarts. 



Statement of Lorenzo H. Rice. 



Oat stubble, ploughed once, and sowed the first week in 

 September, one and a half bushel seed to the acre, no manure 

 used; soil, gravelly loam, eight acres in the piece; had on one 

 acre a fraction over forty-four bushels. 



