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As a part of tLis corn had already been removed, the Committee 

 could not strictly verify Mr. Ruggles's account of the number of 

 baskets brought from the field. They have, however, no reason to 

 doubt its accuracy; and it is substantially corroborated by Xr. 

 Break's admeasurement of the bin, soon after the corn was placed 

 there. 



Respectfully submitted. 



THOS. MOTLEY, 

 CHEEVER NEWIIALL. 

 December 8, 185a. 



Milton, November 12, 1853. 



J. P. Jones ^ Esq., Chairman of the Committee on Grain Crops: 



Sir — 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 com- 

 municate 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 dollai's 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 culti- 

 vated, but never, to my knowledge, 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 har- 

 vested, and the quantity reported, I measured the ground, and found 

 it to contain 2 acres, 3 roods, 7 rods, as given in his statement, which, 

 as I reckoned it, is at the rate of 47 1-2 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, and must have lost several bushels in moving, 

 which would have been saved, had it been carried directly from the 

 field into the barn, and have made the crop near or quite 50 bushels 

 per acre, making a clear gain of about ^48 per acre — a sum 



