DIGITAL ARCHIVE of SLAVERY to FREEDOM at MONTICELLO   (beta)

Rye.

it is thought that any ground will yeild as much wheat as rye, & that wheat exhausts less than rye.

D. Ross has found that 4. bush. of rye furnish as much nutriment to horses as 5. bushels of corn. both supposed to be ground.

also that a feed of 3. quarts of ground corn are as nutritive as 4. quarts of unground.

G. Divers thinks that 4. measures of bran are but equal to one of rye or corn.

Oats.

a common sheaf of oats, chopped, will fill a peck, & contains about a pint of the grain.

a good sheaf will weigh 2. ℔.

100. ℔ in the sheaf will yield a bushel of grain, if the straw was not very rank