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The labor emj)loy(Ml on this land, has been nothing more 

 than is nsnally employed in cultivating land in tliis way. 

 Marblohead, Oct. 2.^th, 1851. 



DAVID COGSWELL'S STATEMENT. 

 T send you a sample of Rye, raised by me, on one acre of 

 land, from one bushel of sowing. The land is near the depot 

 in Ipswich, and is a side hill, the higiiest part is gravel mixed 

 with loam, and the residue is good soil. It was broke up in 

 the spring of 1849, and planted with potatoes, with two and 

 a half cords of barn manure, and one barrel Guano. In 1850, 

 it was planted with potatoes, five cords of manure ploughed in : 

 in September, the same year, was sowed down with one bush- 

 el of rye and grass seed, without manure. It was reaped in Au- 

 gust 1851, and all cleaned like the sample, and measured 

 thirty-eight and a half bushels, weighing sixty and one half 

 pounds to the bushel ; the straw has not been weighed, I 

 should judge there was one and a half tons. 

 Ipswich, Sept. 24th, 1851. 



ADINO PAGE'S STATEMENT. 



I present for your examination, the product of a field 

 of Winter Rye, on the town farm in Danvers. The soil on 

 which it grew, is about an average quality, with that of the 

 farm, known to be shallow, light and gravelly. 



Where the rye grew it was broken up in 1849, and planted 

 with corn. In 1850, it was well manured, and planted with 

 potatoes; yielded a fair crop, most of which rotted, as did the 

 others grown on the farm. It was ploughed the latter part of 

 September, deep, with two pair of cattle, and the rye was 

 sown on the fourth of October. It came up and looked well 

 through the winter. A little over one and a half bushels of 

 seed was sown on the piece, containing two acres and nine 



