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two acres of this land, rye was grown last year. The other 

 was broke up in the spring of 1850, manured in the hill, and 

 planted with corn, yielding a good crop. In the spring of 1851 

 it was manured with three and one-half cords of hog-yard 

 manure to the acre, ploughed deep, and planted with potatoes. 

 After this crop was taken off, it was ploughed deep, and har- 

 rowed well. On the 22d of September, it was sown with 

 about three pecks of rye to the acre, covered with the harrow, 

 and rolled. On the 10th and 12th of July last, it was cut with 

 sickles and cradles, dried in the field, and gathered into the 

 barn in good condition, and immediately threshed out. The 

 yield was one hundred and sixty-eight bushels, weighing fifty- 

 eight pounds to the bushel. There was about five tons of 

 straw, which is very nice. The collar makers and onion deal- 

 ers are buying it for their uses, at sixty and seventy cents per 

 hundred. The grain is worth ninety cents per bushel. 



Adino Page. 

 Danvers, Sept. 15, 1852. 



James Broivn, Jr.^s, Statement. 



I present for your notice, a statement of the culture of a 

 field of winter rye, in Danvers, in the southerly part of the 

 town, adjoining Boston road. The land is on a plain, light 

 and loamy soil. In 1850 it yielded potatoes ; in 3,851 one-half 

 corn, the other potatoes. About four cords of manure were 

 then applied to the acre. No manure was applied, the present 

 season. It was ploughed In the autumn, about seven inches 

 deep, with one pair of cattle. Two and one-eighth bushels of 

 seed were sown on the 1st of October, upon the lot which 

 contains one and three-fourths acre. The produce was fifty- 

 six bushels, weighing, on an average, one hundred and fifty-six 

 pounds to the bag of two bushels, as plump and fair as any 

 grain I have ever seen. No extra effort was made in the cul- 

 ture of the grain, but as the field was uncommonly handsome, 

 I was induced to give this statement. Rye, in my opinion, is 

 one of the easiest and most valuable crops to cultivate on land 

 of this description. 



James Brown, Jr. 



Danvers, Sept. 25, 1852. 



