100 ON GRAIN CROPS. 



land, ill addition to other measures.* Ashes, leached or im- 

 leached, should not be omitted. Unleached ashes are often too 

 caustic when applied fresh to growing plants in too large 

 quantities. Hence, with many, they are in less repute than 

 leached ashes. But since we know that potash makes an ex- 

 cellent compost manure with meadow mud, we must believe 

 that the soap boiler extracts from ashes what is far more valu- 

 able to the farmer, than the lime is, which he adds to them. 

 Clayey lands are best suited to wheat crops. Hence we infer 

 that clay on light sandy soils would prove an excellent man- 

 ure for wheat. It is well worth the experiment, and should it 

 prove beneficial, the Railroads which pass through clay beds 

 might be advantageously used, to convey it to lighter soils in 

 the vicinity of their lines. It would doubtless more perma- 

 nently benefit such lands than more costly and more perishable 

 manures.! 



RYE. 



On the culture of Rye, the statements of the claimants now 

 before us, are unusually valuable. They come from different 

 parts of the county, and show a difference in the preparation 

 of the land, the quantity of seed sown, and in the product ob- 

 tained, worthy of careful study and consideration. For more 

 convenient reference we have reduced their results to a tabu- 

 lar form. 



E. Brown, 1 acre, seed 1 ^^ bush. Product 48^ bush, or 2796^ lbs. 

 D. Cogswell! " " 1 " " 38^ " 2329 " 



A.Page 1 " " f " " 39 " 2262 " 



B. Adams 1 " " 1^ " " 36^ " 2124 '' 



N. Tapley 1 " '•' 1 " " 24| " 1403f " 



*Plaster of Paris on my farm in Middleton, has not generally produced ob- 

 vious effects. But there we have seen its benefit most decidedly on beans and 

 onions. 



|See letter of H. Poor, appended to this Report. 



