186 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Threshing and cleaning, . . . $6 00 



Interest and taxes, 15 00 



$31 25 



Net profit, $64 88 



Hadley, November, 1854. 



Statement of Chester Coicles. 



The land on which this crop was raised contains two acres. 

 In 1853 it was planted with corn, and manured at the rate of 

 twenty loads to the acre, spread on and harrowed in. After 

 rny corn was harvested I sowed my rye, at the rate of one 

 bushel to the acre. I harvested in July. The land was 

 ploughed deep and thoroughly harrowed. 



Value of crop : — 



50 bushels, at $1.25, .... 

 Straw, by estimate, .... 



Expenses : — 



Seed, 



Ploughing, harrowing, and sowing, 



Harvesting and threshing, 



Interest on land, 



Net profit, .... $52 23 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Nahiun Snell. 



The land on which I raised the rye which I entered as a 

 competitor for the society's premium consists of gravelly loam, 

 rather uneven, on which was rye in the year 1853 ; it was sown 

 to rye in September, 1853, the second year, on which I carted 

 fifty loads of compost manure, consisting of about one-half 



