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Seventeen days later the remainder of the ground was 

 ploughed, harrowed, and seed sown, using a brush harrow at 

 the time of sowing. This Fall I threshed a hundred and ten 

 bushels of handsome rye ; have also sold five tons of straw. 



I judge what I have used and what yet remains would 

 make 1500 pounds more. The rye at $1.00 per bushel, and 

 straw at $20.00 per ton, amounts to $225.00. It cost about 

 $12.00 to plough for the rye ; $4.00 to harrow and brush ; 

 $3.50 for seed ; $33.00 to thresh and winnow ; $30.00 to secure 

 the crop ; and, being far from market, $25.00 to get it to 

 market, leaving the sum of $117.50 margin in favor of the 

 rye. No manure was used at the time of sowing, but where 

 the greatest' amount of phosphate was used for potatoes the 

 rye was the stoutest. This rye was grown on three acres of 

 land, as near as we can measure it, using the best instru- 

 ment I have, a pole twenty feet long. 



T. B. Blackman. 



