48 THAN8ACTIOX8. 



RTE. 



Statement of Washington Miller. 



My rye grew on one hundred and five rods of my best land. In 1854, T 

 spread twelve loads of yard manure, plowed it in, seven inches deep, planted 

 to broom-corn, and harvested at the rate of eight hundred pounds of brush 

 to the acre. In October, 1854, I turned in the broom-corn stalks and 

 sowed the piece with a bushel of rye. Last April, I sowed on two hundred 

 pounds of Mexican Guano, and harvested, about the 15th of July, twenty- 

 eight bushels, weighing fifty-nine pounds to the bushel. 



Value of Crop. 



28 bushels, at $1,25, 



1^ tons of straw, ...... 



Expenses. 



Seed, plowing, sowing and guano, 

 Harvesting and threshing,. $4 ; interest $8, 



Net profit $25 75 



SUNDERLAKD, Oct. 2, 1855. 



EROOinCORiT. 



Statement of Albert Montague. 



My broom corn was raised on one acre of Sunderland meadow. It was 



Planted to corn in 1853, and last year I took off a light crop of rye. In May, 

 855, I applied eight loads of manure, spread evenly, and plowed in. I 

 planted with Woodward's planter — the hills two and a half feet apart, and 

 the rows about three feet apart. I dropped in the hills about fifty pounds of 

 superphosphate of lime, mixed with fifty pounds of plaster, hoed four times, 

 and left the ground nearly level. I used a Cultivator between the rows three 

 times, and the last time nothing but the hoe, merely cutting the weeds, that 

 they might not seed. I harvested on the 11th, 12th and 13th of October. 



Value of Crop. 

 Expenses. 



1129 pounds of brush, at 10 cts., .... $11290 

 j^6 bushels of seed, at 45 cts., .... 29 70 



Plowing, harrowing and planting, 

 Manure in the hill, . . . . . 

 Hoeing, $8 ; harvesting and scraping, $10, 

 Interest, ....... 



$2 50 



]0 50 



18 00 



9 00 



$142 60 



$40 00 



Net profit, $102 UU 



Sunderland, Nov. 14, 1855. ■ 



