The receipts were : 

 For straw, $1 per 100 lbs., 8,131 lbs., $81.31 



For grain, 75 cts. per bu., 57| bu., 43.17 



Value of crops, $124.48 



Expenses, 48.25 



Profit, $76.23 



After harvesting the rye, the land was ploughed, a dress- 

 ing of six hundred pounds of fertilizer, rich in potash, was 

 spread broadcast, and Hungarian was sown. There was 

 a good crop, though it was affected by the dryness of the 

 season. It was my intention to follow it with another 

 crop of rye, but I regret that my teams were too much 

 occupied to enable me to carry out the plan. 



Two other pieces were in rye at the same time as the 

 one offered for premium, each of which had fertilizers 

 applied before sowing, and all three crops were so nearly 

 alike in yield that there was no choice between them. 



It strikes me that the lesson to be learned from these 

 experiments is, that it may pay to manure our land, espe- 

 cially for rye, and not, as is customary, let the crop depend 

 wholly for food on the leavings of the one that preceded it. 

 Yours, J. J. H. Gregory, 



Marblehead, Mass. 



This is to certify that on an acre of rye raised on the 

 farm of J. J. H. Gregory, at Middleton, there was grown, 

 by weight, 3,225 lbs., or 5T§ bu., and 8,131 lbs. of straw, 

 or 4 tons, 131 lbs. — the grain having been weighed at the 

 barn and the straw on the town scales. 



Middleton, Oct. 26, 1886. S. A. Jones. 



STATEMENT OF OLIVER P. KILLAM OF BOXFORD. 



The crop of 1884 English hay, fifteen hundred lbs. to 



