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favorable year, and a large crop was obtained. As soon as 

 the potatoes were dug, the land was ploughed and harrowed, 

 and the rye was sown and harrowed in. This spring, very 

 soon after the snow was gone, grass seed was sown, and 

 the result is found in the foregoing crop of rye, and a fine 

 catch of grass that was so well grown when the dry 

 weather of the latter part of the season came on, that no 

 injury was done thereby ; whereas, if I had waited and 

 sowed grain this spring, it would have been so late (as the 

 ground could not have been ploughed until June), that the 

 crop of grain must have been small and the grass so feeble 

 when dry weather came on that probably a large part 

 would have been summer-killed. The yield per acre at the 

 regoing rate would be fifty bushels. 



I append an estimate of the cost and value of the crop : 



Rent of land, $ 8.00 



Ploughing, harrowing and sowing, 5.00 



Harvestino-, 10.00 



Threshing^ 12.00 



$35.00 



Sixty bushels rye at 70 cents, -142.00 



5510 pounds straw at 60 cents, 33.06 



$75.06 

 Cost, 35.00 



Profit, $40.06 



STATEMENT OF R. NEWELL. 



The land on which the crop that I offer for premium, 

 was planted with potatoes in the spring of 1883, six cords 

 of good barn-yard manure spread on and harrowed in. 

 Harvested potatoes first week in September. Prepared 

 ground and sowed rye. Sept, 17, 1883. Finished harvest, 

 ing rye, July 21, '84. Had it weighed in public scales, 

 before housing ; weight, 10,370 pounds. Threshed and 



