ESSEX SOCIETY. 39 



Ephraim Browii's Statement. 



I herewith submit a statement of a crop of Rye, raised on 

 one acre of land, on my farm, on Marblehead Neck. The land 

 had been several years in grass, which became very much 

 rooted out by the tivitch-grass, and in the spring of 1849, I 

 broke it up, and manured it with a very liberal dressing of rot- 

 ten kelp, spread on the top of the furrows and harrowed in, 

 then planted it with marrow squashes ; after gathering the 

 squashes in the fall, I cross ploughed it again, in order to ex- 

 pose the roots of the twitch-grass to the frost, which in a great 

 measnre subdued it. In the spring of 1850, I ploughed it 

 once, harrowed it down, and spread on again a very liberal 

 dressing of rotten kelp, which I ploughed in, and then j)lanted 

 it with potatoes, which I dug in September, and the last week 

 in that month I ploughed it and sowed it with one and a half 

 bushels of winter rye. Not thinking of entering this crop for 

 a premium, I was not particular to ascertain the exact quantity 

 of manure used, but I matuired liberally, \ robably six to eight 

 loads to the acre. The rye was reaped the last week in July, 

 and housed the first week in August, and after it had been in 

 the barn about a week, I had it thrashed out, and cleaned up, 

 and measured from the mill, and found it forty-eight bush- 

 els, and one peck, weighing fifty-eight pounds to the bushel. 

 The straw weighed .5295 lbs. which I sold as follows : The 

 first load, 2200 lbs. sold for $10 per ton, the second load, 3095 

 lbs. sold for $11 per ton, total |28 02. 



The labor employed on this land, has been nothing more 

 than is usually employed in cultivating land in this way. 



Marblehead, Oct. 25, 1851. 



David CogswelVs Statement. 

 I send you a sample of rye, raised by me, on one acre of 

 land, from one bushel of sowing. The land is a side hill, the 

 highest part is gravel mixed with loam, and the residue is good 

 soil. It was broke up in the spring of 1849, and planted with 

 potatoes, with two and a half cords of barn manure, and one 

 barrel Guano. In 1850, it was planted with potatoes, five cords 



