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liieastirmg one acre. The ground was a sort of clayey loalHy 

 which had been planted for two years — last year with corn and 

 beets, yielding a fair crop. I sowed two bushels of rye and 

 seeded it with grass seed — twelve quarts to the acre. Har- 

 vested the same in August, and threshed it in October. The 

 yield was 49 bushels of fine, clean grain, and had two tons of 

 straw. 



Cost of crop : 

 Ploughing, f 3 00 



2 bushels of seed, 1 80 



Sowing and harrowing,. 1 50 



Reaping, 3 00 



Threshing. 4 00 



Rent of land, 10 00 



$23 3a 



Value of crop : 

 49 bushels of rye, at 92 cents,- $45 08 



2 tons of straw, at $10, 20 00 



Net profit, $41.78. 

 Land surveyed by Thomas Cotton. 



Salem, Nov. 6, 1862. 



$65 08 



MANURES. 



The Committee, in making their report, would again express 

 their great obligations to Richard S. Rogers, for giving the re- 

 sults of another year's experience with the diiferent fertilizers 

 used by him for top-dressing grass land. His statement will 

 be found to confirm fully the testimony of his experiments of 



