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above ground, at ihc rate of 40 bushels to the acre. I have never 

 been troubled with the rot For corn, I never put duni? in the hills ; 

 use guano as a steep, one gill to one and an half gallons water, leav- 

 ing the grain in this liquid 24 hours. Plough three times, and keep 

 all weeds down. I cut the corn up at the ground always. 



WILLIAM B. ODDIE. 



BARLRY AND RYE. 



Lynn, Mass., Dec. 13th, 1845. 

 T, B. Wakeman. 



Sir : The rye presented for premium, was raised oh a loamy soil, 

 planted last year in potatoes, and manured wiih about 30 horse cart 

 loads of barn manure per acre. The potatoes were dug in August. 

 The last week in September the ground was plowed and harrowed, 

 and a barrel of air-slacked lime sown. The rye was planted after it 

 had soaked 27 hours in a solution of poudrette, (1 gallon of poudrette 

 to 5 gallons of water.) 'I'he grain was harrowed in, grass seed sown 

 and bushed in, and a heavy i oiler passed over the whole. On the 

 15lh of July I tried to cradle it, but found it best to cut it with the 

 sickle ; left it four or five days as it was cut, then turned it over care- 

 fully, and the next day bound it with single bands, and housed it. It 

 was threshed by hand. The following is a statement of the yield : 



To 7i days work, $6 20 



" one bushel of seed and poudrette, 90 



Interest on land, 6 per cent, 3 56 



One barrel air-slacked lime, 33 



Profit on 95 rods, 25 35 



$36 34 



By 24 bushel< rye, 85 cents, $20 40 



*' .straw sold for, 15 94 



S36 34 



The barley was grown on an upland, loamy soil, planted last year 

 in roots. Tl'.e product was not great, about 36 bushels per acre, as it 

 was much aflfcctcd by the drought, though the grain was heavy and 

 good. 'I'he seed was soaked 12 hours in a solution of poudrette, and 



