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looked upon in any sense as experimental ; for I have 

 good reason to believe that no year has passed witliout the 

 raising of some acres of rye. 



If I am not counted out under the " rules of the 

 society," I desire to say that the crop to which your atten- 

 tion was called has been harvested with the following re- 

 sults. 



Straw (all sold) 8395 lbs. at 80 cents per 



hundred, $67 16 



58 bushels of rye (about half sold) at 90 



cents per bushel, 52 '20 



$57 87 per acre. $119 36 



The land on which the above crop grew, measures two 

 acres and ten rods ; is a part of an old pasture ; in the last 

 twenty years has been in grass and rye, being plowed once 

 in six or seven years. It was dressed with twenty loads 

 of sood manure of thirty bushels each. Sown with one 

 bushel of rye, six lbs. of clear red top and twelve pounds 

 herds grass to acre. 



Yours respectfully, 



Hartwell B. Abbott. 



STATEMENT OF MAITBICE H. CONNOR, RYE CEOP. 



The acre of rye which I enter for premium was grown 

 on land that had been a strawberry bed for the past two 

 years ; it was well fertilized in 1890, but nothing in '91. 

 The soil is a dark loam, the vines were plowed under in 

 September with an Oliver chilled plough, that being the 

 only one with which I can do it successfully ; the rye was 

 cut with a scythe the middle of July, bundled and stocked 

 and left about two weeks, then hauled to the barn and 

 threshed and marketed. The entire crop on the acre was 

 32i bushels of rye and 4275 lbs, of straw. 



