lOS ON GRAIN CROPS. 



poles, of rye raised on the farm. The field yielded eighty 

 bushels, weighing fifty-eight pounds to the bushel, of as hand- 

 pome rye as I ever saw. The straw was upright and fair. 

 Danyers, Sept. 1st, 1851. 



RIC[IARD AUAMSS STATEMENT. 



I offer for premium a crop of Winter Rye, raised on one 

 ficre and eight rods of land, being thjrty-eight bushels and 

 nineteen quarts and a half, or at the rate of thirty-six bushels, 

 and 2A^j quarts to the acre. 



The soil is a dark loam, which was manured in the spring 

 of 1850, with eight cords of barn manure, and a crop of po- 

 tatoes raised thereon. No additional manure was used. On 

 the first week in October, the land was sowed with a bushel 

 and a half of winter rye, and in the latter part of July 1851, 

 the crop was harvested. 



It should be mentioned, that there are five apple trees stand' 

 ing on the ground, each of which, will, on an average, shade 

 a circle of one rod in diameter, and that at the least, two 

 bushels of grain were on one end of the piece destroyed by 

 my hens. 



Newbury, Sept. 24th, 1851. 



NATHAN TAPLEY'S STATEMENT. 

 I herewith send you a sample of Rye, grown on a piece of 

 ground viewed by you before harvested. The product of the 

 same was thirty-two and one half bushels. The measurement 

 of the land is one acre and fifty-five poles. Onions had been 

 cultivated on the land for a number of years, and believing that 

 a change of crop would be beneficial, in the spring, as soon as 

 the land was sufficiently dry to work, I ploughed it, and sow-- 

 ed five pecks of seed on the furrow and harrowed it in. J 

 put a sprinkling of compost manure on about one half of the 



