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bushels, the corn crop at 1,300,000,000 bushels, cand an oat 

 crop in excess even of the veiy large product of last year. 

 The esthnate of the wheat ci-op, two months ago, was 407,- 

 000,000 bushels, or 87,000,000 bushels more than the yield 

 of 1877. 



During the last six years we have more than doubled, nearly 

 trebled, our exports of corn, wheat and flour, sending abroad 

 last year no less than 85,000,000 bushels of corn, 4,000,000 

 barrels of flour, and about 100,000,000 bushels of wheat. 



Are not these statistics well calculated to make the Ameri- 

 can farmer proud of his vocation and prouder still of his 

 country? 



Horace F. Longfellow, Hanson Ordway, Charles Perleyj 

 Sidney F. Newman — Committee on Grain CrojpSi 



Byneld, Nov. 9, 1878. 



STATEMENT OF J. B. KNIGHT* 



Statement to the Essex Agricultural Society of a crop of 

 Rye raised by J. B. Knight, of Newbury, 1878. 



The crop of 1876 was potatoes ; twenty loads, 30 bushels 

 per load, of l^arn-yard manure, was put on and ploughed in. 

 The crop of 1877 was oats, with ten loads of manure per acre 

 ploughed in, valued at four dollars per cord. The soil is a 

 gravelly loam, with a gravelly sub-soil. The oats "were cut 

 before they headed, and when again grown were ploughed in 

 six inches deep, and once harrowed, the middle of September* 

 Cost of ploughing, three dollars per acre. 



Rye mixed with an equal quantity of wood ashes, and moist* 

 ened, was sown, two bushels of seed per acre ; value of Rye 

 one dollar per bushel. It was harrowed twice after sowing, 

 at a cost of one dollar per acre for sowing and harrowing. 

 It was harvested by reaping the first of August, at a cost of 

 four dollars per acre for reaping and binding. Cost of 

 threshing by hand, five dollars per acre; amount of strawj 

 one and three-fourths tons. 



