GRAIN CROPS. 125 



Cost of seed and planting, 

 of ploughing, &c., 

 of manure, 

 of cultivating and harvesting, 



"Weight of crop as certified by "W. Baker, Nov. 6th, 

 Statements of Cyrus Kilburn. 



WINTER RYE. 



The crop of 1865 on this land was potatoes, and in 1866 corn. 

 In 1865 ten cartloads of compost manure was used, and in 

 1866 twelve. Soil, sandy loam. Ploughed once, six or seven 

 inches deep, in September ; no other preparation for the seed ; 

 no dressing for the rye crop. Sowed the last of September ; 

 harvested about the 25th of July. One ton straw. The land 

 on which my winter rye grew measures 159 square rods. 



Cost of seed and planting, $5 00 



of ploughing, &c., . . . . . . 6 00 



of cultivating and harvesting, . . . . 10 00 



$21 00 

 Weight of crop, as certified by Thomas Billings, Nov. 5, 1,370 

 lbs. to the acre. 



I had another acre in the same inclosure sowed to winter 

 wheat, and treated in a similar way as to manuring and crop- 

 ping, and the wheat crop was much more valuable than the rye. 



WHITE BEANS. 



On this land the crop in 1865 was grass ; no dressing was 

 used. In 1866 it was horticultural beans ; used two cartloads 

 of composted manure. Soil, gravelly loam. Ploughed once in 

 May, six or seven inches deep ; applied two loads compost 

 manure and forty pounds superphosphate of lime. Planted the 

 first of June, in the drill, three quarts of the early white 

 pea bean ; pulled and stacked the beans the first of Sep- 

 tember. Raised four or five hundred weio-ht of bean straw. 



