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and other stock. One-eighth ground is for family use, and 

 feeding cows, &c. One-eighth perhaps is sent off by the ca- 

 nal to the Cincinnati market. 



Where the land is rich, to plant with a drill, the rows 

 turning north and south, is considered preferable to planting 

 in hills ; simply, because each root and stalk is isolated and 

 not crowded in the hill, the roots have more room to spread, 

 and each stalk produces more generally full grown corn. In 

 ordinary seasons, the plow and cultivator is not used after 

 the 10th of July. 



Oats. — Two bushels are generally sown on one acre. The 

 average yield is about thirty bushels per acre. The general 

 price in our market this year, is about sixteen cents per 

 bushel. 



Rye. — About fifteen bushels per acre is the average pro- 

 duct of rye, and the market price about fifty cents per 

 bushel. 



Barley. — The general product of barley is about thirty 

 bushels per acre, and the general price sixty cents per bushel. 

 From this statement, barley certainly is much the more prof- 

 itable crop, while the land is not so much impoverished in 

 producing it, as it is, by either oats or rye. Wheat succeeds 

 the barley crop better than any other. There is yet no grain 

 cultivated in the county, that when ground and fed to milk 

 cows can compete with it in producing butter, either for rich- 

 ness or quantity. Spring barley produces from twenty-five 

 to forty bushels, while that sown in the fall yields from forty 

 to fifty bushels per acre. Sow in the fall, about the middle 

 of September, or in the spring as early as the weather per- 

 mits. Grass succeeds well, when put in with barley. 



Grass. — Timothy is esteemed the highest and is generally 

 sown. Blue grass is preferred for pasture. Herd, is much 

 used in low moist lands. Clover is not cultivated as gener- 

 ally as it should be, for it is valuable as a fertilizer, setting 

 aside other purposes for which it is no mean crop ; for in- 

 stance, to be fed to sheep and colts. The quantity sown on 



