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of manure ploughed in ; in September, the same year, was 

 sowed down with one bushel of rye and grass seed, without 

 manure. It was reaped in August, 1851, and all cleaned like 

 the sample, and measured thirty-eight and a half bushels, 

 weighing sixty and one half pounds to the bushel ; the straw 

 has not been weighed ; I should judge there was one and a half 

 tons, 



Ipswich, >S'ejo^. 24, 1851. 



Adino Page's Statement. 



I present for your examination, the product of a field of win- 

 ter rye, on the town farm in Danvers. The soil on which it 

 grew, is about an average quality with that of the farm, known 

 to be shallow, light and gravelly. 



Where the rye grew, it was broken up in 1849, and planted 

 with corn. In 1850, it was well manured, and planted with 

 potatoes ; yielded a fair crop, most of which rotted, as did the 

 others grown on the farm. It was ploughed the latter part of 

 September, deep, with two pair of cattle, and the rye was sown 

 on the fourth of October. It came up and looked well through 

 the winter. A little over one and a half bushels of seed was 

 sown on the piece, containing two acres and nine poles. The 

 field yielded eighty bushels, weighing fifty-eight pounds to the 

 bushel, of as handsome rye as I ever saw. The straw was 

 upright and fair. 



Danveus, Sept. 1, 1851. 



Richard Adamses Statement. 



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

 and eight rods of land, being thirty-eight bushels and nineteen 

 quarts and a half, or at the rate of thirty-six bushels, and 

 242*j- quarts to the acre. 



The soil is a dark loam, which was manured in the spring of 

 1850, with eight cords of barn manure, and a crop of potatoes 

 raised thereon. No additional manure was used. On the first 

 week in October, the land was sowed with a bushel and a half 

 of winter rye, and in the latter part of July, 1851, the crop was 

 harvested. 



Newbury, Sept. 24, 1851. 



