No. 105.] 303 



BARLEY. 



The committee on barley report, that there were five competitors for 

 the premium on barley. 



The first premium, of $10, is awarded to Hiram Mills, of Martins- 

 burgh, Lewis county. 



Two acres and seventy one-hundredths produced 191 bushels — at the 

 rate of 70f | bushels. 



The second premium, of $5, is awarded to Nathaniel S. Wright, of 

 Vernon, Oneida county. 



Two acres produced one hundred and seventeen bushels and thirty- 

 four forty-eighths, or at the rate of 51|i bushels per acre. 



The third premium, of Vol. Trans., is awarded to S. B. Dudley, of 

 Ontario county. 



Two acres and forty-two rods produced one hundred and thirty 

 bushels and three pecks — at the rate of fifty bushels and twenty-one 

 pounds. 



* RAWSON HARMON. 



HIRAM MILLS. 



Statement of the method of cultivation of a crop of barley raised on 

 his farm in the town of Martinsburgh, on two acres and ^^"jj of an 

 acre of land. 



The soil on which said crop was raised is a mixture of clay and 

 loam. 



Previous crop potatoes, manured with about ten loads of cow stable 

 manure to the acre. In the spring of 1845, three or four loads of hog 

 manure was spread on the poorest part of the piece — plowed once, and 

 sowed about the first of May, 3 bushels two rowed barley per acre ; 

 harrowed well and rolled. Harvested about the last of July, and 

 yielded 191 bushels, or 70|| bushels per acre. 



Expense of cultivation per acre. 



Plowing, harrowing and rolling, one day, $1 50 



Three bushels seed, 4^., 1 50 



Harvesting 3 days, • . 2 25 



Threshing 5 days in winter, 45. , 2 50 



Three loads hog manure, and drawing, 3*., . . . . 1 13 



Drawing to market, 3 00 



Interest on land at $50 per acre, 3 50 



$15 38 



• This gentleman's name has been printed Rosweil Harmon, owing to his not having 

 afEixed it to some of his reports. 



