GRAIN CROPS. 89 



Statement of Alonzo P. Goodridge. 

 Rye. — The soil on which I raised my spring rye was a sandy 

 loam, on which in 1862 and 1863 I raised corn ; and was 

 ploughed six inches deep, and rye sowed about the 1st of May ; 

 one and one-fourth bushels of seed were used to the acre ; it 

 was reaped 26th of July, and the acre yielded 1,600 pounds, 

 being about 28|- bushels to the acre. 



Cost of ploughing, .... 



" " sowing, ..... 



& L/ (i> Vl K • • « • • • 



" " harvesting, .... 



$14 00 



NANTUCKET. 



. Statement of Charles W. Gardner. 

 Corn. — Having entered as a competitor for the premium for 

 the best experiment in raising Indian corn, I will say that the 

 land is a sandy loam, that has been in grass for the last fifteen 

 years, — last year produced about one-half ton to the acre. The 

 piece contains about six acres ; but the worms have troubled a 

 part of it so badly, that I will enter but three acres. Last 

 February I commenced carting and spreading barn manure, 

 composted with peat muck and soil, forty loads to the acre, each 

 load containing twenty bushels. Ploughed the first of April, 

 five inches deep ; planted from the 15th to the 21st of May, in 

 hills three and one-half feet apart each way. My object in 

 spreading the manure so early in the season is that it costs less, 

 and that the manure gets more thoroughly mixed with the soil, 

 and the after-crops are more even than when the manure is 

 dropped in heaps and spread at ploughing. 



RESULT IN CROP. 



385 bushels ears, worth 90 cents per bushel, . . $346 50 

 2^ tons top-stalks, worth $10 per ton, . . . 25 00 

 3 tons butts and husks, worth $6 per ton, . . 18 00 



$389 50 



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