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manure made of muck and tlic droppings in the yard spread on 

 the furrows and well cultivated in. I sowed two and one-half 

 bushels of barley on one acre, the second day of June, and har- 

 vested thirty-seven bushels of good nice barley therefrom the 

 present season," 



S. N. "Watson entered for premium on half an acre of barley. 

 It was sown on a loam, light and friable, of a dark yellow color, 

 and about two feet deep, with a hard and gravelly subsoil ; was 

 broken up late in the spring of 1855, and six loads of stable 

 manure applied to half an acre, and plowed in about eight 

 inches deep, harrowed and rolled. The seed was of the six 

 rowed variety, sowed broadcast, at the rate of three bushels to 

 the acre. Sowed May 9th, and harvested July 28th. He cuts 

 his grain soon after it is full ia the milk, but owing to the 

 weather this was riper than he wishes to have it when cut. 

 Produce, twenty bushels to the half acre, or forty bushels to 

 the acre; three tons of straw. 



Cost of crop, . . . . . $9 00 



Value of crop, .... $20 00 



U tons of straw, $4, . . . 6 00 



$26 00 

 Profit, . . . . . . 17 00 



$26 00 



Mr. Watson also raised one-ciglith of an acre of carrots, ou 

 a loam of a dark, yellow color, light and friable, from one to 

 two feet deep, underlaid by a hard, gravelly subsoil. It is 

 stony, the stones being both large and small, a mixture of 

 granite and limestone. It was planted the year before, and 

 eight cords of stable manure applied to the acre, and plowed 

 ten inches deep. This year one and a half cords stable manure 

 was applied to an eighth of an acre; orange carrot seed sown 

 June 4th in drills. Produce, eighty bushels from one-eighth of 

 an acre. 



Cost of crop, . . . . . $12 00 



Value, . . . . . $40 00 



Profit, 28 00 



$40 00 



