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harvesting, I should probably have had another bushel, as the 



fowls devoured some of it. 



I threshed out nine pecks for sowing before the machine 

 arrived. The remaining eighteen bushels were threshed by Mr. 

 Killbrick, of Pembroke, whose machine for threshing grain of 

 all kinds is the most perfect I have ever seen. 



RYE. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



Statement of George Dickinson. 



The land on which my crop of rye grew is of the second qual- 

 ity of meadow land, lying directly on the bank of the Connecti- 

 cut, in Iladley. In the spring of 1853 it was ploughed from 

 seven to eight inches deep. Twelve loads of manure were ap- 

 plied to the acre and harrowed in. Corn was then planted and 

 thoroughly cultivated. The corn was cut up the second week 

 in September, and yielded at harvest fifty bushels per acre. 

 The ground was again ploughed from eight to nine inches deep, 

 and sown with a bushel and a half of white rye per acre, at 

 seventy-five cents per bushel. The crop was harvested the 

 13th- and 14th of July. 



Value of crop : — 



Sixty-five and a half bushels of fifty-six pounds, $76 63 

 Three and a quarter tons of straw, . . 19 50 



$96 13 



Expenses : — 



Ploughing and sowing, . . . . $3 00 



Three bushels of rye, 2 25 



Ilarvc sting and housing, . . . . 5 00 



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