196 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Cr. 

 Eight bushels, at $1.25, $10 00 



Profits, $7 50 



Eastham. 



RYE. 



ESSEX. 



Statement of William F. Porter. 



I offer for premium a crop of winter rye, raised on one acre ; 

 the soil is of a sandy loam. In the summer of 1851 it yielded 

 about one ton of hay per acre. In September following it was 

 ploughed eight inches deep, and on the 15th, ten loads of 

 compost manure to the acre were applied, thirty-five bushels 

 to the load. One bushel of rye sown, covered with the har- 

 row and rolled. On the 12th of July, 1852, it was harvest- 

 ed, and threshed out the last of August, and yielded twenty- 

 eight and three-fourths bushels. On the 23d and 24th of Sep- 

 tember, 1852, the stubble was turned under, and ten loads of 

 compost manure from the barn cellar, of about equal parts loam 

 and cow manure, were applied, one bushel of rye sown, har- 

 rowed and rolled. On the 13th of July last it was cut with 

 sickle and cradle, bound and carted into the barn the 16th, 

 threshed out the 19th and 20th of August. The yield was 

 thirty-four and five-eighths bushels, of fifty- eight pounds to the 

 bushel. The weight of the straw was thirty-eight hundred and 

 sixty pounds. 



The expense of cultivating the said crop was as follows : — 

 For one man and one pair of oxen one day, 



ploughing, . . . . . . $1 67 



Carting and spreading ten loads of manure, 



the same, 1 67 



Sowing, harrowing twice and rolling, one man 



and one pair of oxen one day, . . 167 



