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piece where 1 thought it most needed, I am nwarc that the 

 aumber of hnsheis per acre, unless there is some distinction 

 between spring and winter rye, does not come npto the require- 

 ments for a premium, but the quality I think very fine. I sold 

 it at ninety cents per bush.el, except three or four bushels re-, 

 served for family use. i have sold thirty-two hundred weight 

 of straw, it being very clear, and good for bunching onions, 

 at fifty cents per hundred at the barn, and have about five 

 hundred weight now on hand, making thirty-seven hundred 

 pounds in all, amounting to eighteen dollars and fifty cents for 

 the straw, and twenty-nine doUarg and twenty-five cents fop 

 the grain. 



Panvers, Ocl. 1st, 1S51. 



ADINO PAGE'S STATEMENT. 



I present for your examination, one and a half acres of Corn, 

 Where the corn grew, grass was mown in 18-50, less than half 

 a ton of poor hay to the acrii. After the mowing, 1 put on 

 eight cords of compost manure, and ploughed it in. In tlie 

 spring, I cross-ploughed the lot about two inches deeper, ih;i i 

 in the fall ; I furrowed it only one way, four feet apart, arid 

 planted the hills three feet apart, applying about two cords of 

 fine maiuire in the hills. At the time of hoejng, it was con= 

 siderably eaten by worms ; I thinned it out to four stocks to 

 the hill. It grew luxuriantly until the drought in the last of 

 July and first of August. It then rolled so much, that I fear- 

 ed the crop would be small. It afterwards revived, and when 

 gathered it yielded two hundred and twenty-three baskets of 

 fair sound corn — and twenty-four baskets of ordinary quality. 

 I estimate the produce to have been one hundred and twenty- 

 three bushels of corn ; a sample of which on the ear, I pre- 

 sent for your inspection. 



Town Farm, Danvers, Oct. Oth, 1851. 



