ON GllAlN CROPS. lOL 



The experiments of Messrs. Adino Page and Nathan Tap- 

 ley, both of Danvers, show in a strong light the difference 

 in value of crops of fall and spring-sown grain. These fields 

 v/ere examined by a part of the Committee, before the rye 

 was harvested. The soil of the different fields was very simi- 

 lar, naturally a light gravelly or sandy loam. It would be dif- 

 ficult to say which was best manured or cultivated, and it is 

 decidedly the opinion of the Committee, that had Mr. Tapley 

 sown fall instead of spring grain, he would have obtained as 

 large a crop as Mr. Page, who obtained, by cradling too, thir- 

 ty-nine bushels to the acre, wliile Mr. Tapley, who reaped his, 

 obtained only 24 1-3. 



The very extraordinary yield of Mr. Brown's acre of land, 

 on Marblehead Neck, indicates that either the sea air or sea 

 shore manures, kelp. &c., are peculiarly suited to this crop. 

 In estimating the value of a crop of ryo, the straw is an item 

 of no small importance. Mr. Browii sold thcprodrice in straw 

 of his acre, in Boston, for twenty-eight dollars. 



Thaer, the celebrated German writer on agriculture, goes 

 into some curious calculations to deduce the produce in straw 

 from that of the grain. He says, that the proportion of grain to 

 straw varies 



In rye, from 38 to 42 in 100. In wheat, from 48 to 52 in 100. 

 In barley " 62" 64 " " In oats, " 60 "62 " " 



It will be seen on examining the statement of Mr. Brown, 

 and calculating the results, that his crop gave grain 52 to straw 

 iQO, aud Mr. Tapley 's gave grain 51 to straw 100- 



INDIAN CORN. 



Adino Page's statement shows not so large a product, to be 

 sure, as has been frequently presented by claimants in former 

 years ; but when we consider the nature of the soil, and the 

 drought of the season, at the very time that corn crops are 



