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having evidently derived great benefit from being sown, and hav 

 ing sprouted, before the moisture supplied by the decaying vege 

 table matter in the soil had evaporated to any considerable extent. 

 This crop produced one hundred and thirty-three bushels. 



&quot;In 1829, the charlock was suffered to grow on the land appro 

 priated to rye, until it had attained its growth, and was in full 

 blossom. The land was then ploughed, and the charlock com 

 pletely covered in. In a short time, a second crop appeared, more 

 vigorous than the first. As soon as this had attained its growth, 

 it was ploughed in as before. A third crop appeared, which was 

 covered in when the land was ploughed for sowing, about the 

 middle of September. This piece of land was a strip parallel 

 with the other, and contained two acres. The crop produced 

 seventy-four bushels and a half. 



&quot; In 1830, the land appropriated to rye included nearly all the 

 lighter parts of the soil, and, owing to a pressure of business, was 

 not attendee! to as we could have wished. It was ploughed, in 

 the early part of the summer ; but harrowing, to destroy the 

 weeds, was substituted for the second ploughing. This, and the 

 unusual blight which affected all the grain in this part of the 

 country, led us to anticipate a small crop. It yielded fifteen 

 bushels to the acre. 



&quot; The land on which the crop of rye was raised the present 

 season had, for three or four years previous, been planted with 

 Indian corn ; and owing to the extent of our tillage land, we have 

 not been able to apply more than four or five loads of manure to 

 the acre this season. The charlock was suffered to attain its 

 growth as usual, and on the 18th and 19th of June, it was 

 carefully ploughed in. The second crop was ploughed in on 

 the Gth and 7th of August. On the 14th and 15th of Sep 

 tember, it was sowed in the usual manner ; viz., a small strip of 

 land was ploughed, and the seed sowed immediately upon the 

 furrow, and then harrowed in. Then another strip of land was 

 ploughed, and so on, until the whole was completed. One bushel 

 per acre was sowed, as usual. Owing to the unusual severity of 

 the winter, the crop was much injured, but recovered soon in the 

 spring. The rye was reaped at the usual season. The land 

 contained one acre and thirteen rods, and yielded forty-six bushels 

 and three pecks a remarkably fine sample.&quot; 



This is certainly an extraordinary result. Mr. Keely remarks. 



