99 



Cr. 52 bushels of rye, at 1.00 per bushel, . . $52.00 

 5050 pounds of straw, at .75 per hundred, . 37.89 



89.89 

 Deduct cost, 37.98 



Net profit, 51.91 



Or at the rate of $42.78 per acre. Bye, per acre, 43 bush- 

 els ; straw, per acre, 4160 pounds. 



JOSIAII F. TWOMBLY. 



Milton, October 25, 1856. 



CHAELES BRECK'S STATEMENT. 



In order to test the value of Plymouth county or Webster corn, 

 in other localities than this, last winter I sent some of it to a friend 

 of mine, Judge Marcy of Rojalton, Vt., who had seen some of it 

 growing in this vicinity, and on Saturday last I received from him 

 an account of it. He says : " I planted all you sent me but two 

 or three ears (which I reserved to compare with the product on 

 my own land,) on the 1st day of May, in hills three feet apart 

 each way, the land being sufficiently dry, and manured with com- 

 mon barn-yard manure, ploughed in. This is from ten to twenty 

 days earlier than corn is usually planted here. I planted a part 

 of it on AVhite River meadow lands, and the rest on land about a 

 mile back. The corn came up well and grew very rapidly till 

 September came in, when there was a greater burden of it than I 

 ever saw of any other kind of corn raised here ; but it was not so 

 forward as other kinds, and I thought from appearance it would 

 not get ripe, and, consequently, we picked and used a good deal 

 of it as ' green corn ' for the table. But as the frost held off 

 later than usual, (about the 20th of October,) that part which 

 was planted on the river lands ripened perfectly, every ear of it 

 becoming sound, and most of them well filled out, and it is as fine 

 corn as I ever saw or could wish for, and makes excellent meal. 

 The ears are longer and larger round, and the kernels much longer 

 and larger than than those you sent me. This is unaccountable 

 to me. Can vou conceive of a reason for it ? I have saved a 



