30 MAINE STATE SOCIETY. 



Barley. Statement of T. H. Norcross of Charleston, Penobscot 

 County : 



"My crop, consisting of 56 13-32 bushels of 53 pounds to the 

 bushel, was grown on one acre. The soil upon which it grew was 

 a loose, yellow, loamy, fine, friable soil, broken up in the spring of 

 1858 ten inches deep ; spread on six cords of barnyard manure : 

 harrowed well, and sowed 3 1-2 bushels oats about the middle of 

 May. Got a large crop, but was absent when harvested, and threshed 

 by odd jobs, so I don't know how many I got. In 1859, I cross- 

 plowed in May ten inches deep ; put on ten cords of good manure ; 

 harrowed well : then plowed again and harrowed down smooth ; 

 hauled a chain 3 1-2 feet apart, and planted five bushels of large 

 Jackson potatoes, cut in small pieces one foot apart. Raised 367 1-2 

 bushels. 



Last spring, 1860, plowed the ground six inches deep; harrowed 

 well, and cross-plowed the same depth and harrowed again ; aiid the 

 27th of April sowed two bushels of two rowed barley, from which I 

 threshed 56 bushels and 13 quarts, weighing 53 pounds to the bushel. 



The depth to the sub-soil is about one foot. The seed was washed 

 and dried with ashes. Mowed and raked the crop August 11th. 



Statement of T. J. Twycross of Dresden, Lincoln County : 



" My crop consisting of 40 bushels of 45 pounds to the bushel, 

 was grown on one acre, 10 rods, being at the rate of 37| bushels to 

 the acre. The soil upon which it grew was clayey loam, mellow, 

 level, and free from stones, rather dark, loamy, fine, about 18 inches 

 to the sub-soil. Several years in grass, last two years in corn. 

 Manured with barnyard manure, ploughed in. No manure applied 

 this year. The time of sowing was May 5th — the common two 

 rowed barley. No previous preparation or soaking : no top dressing 

 of any kind used. Cut August 3d, the stalks quite green. Ploughed 

 a few days before sowing about six inches deep. 



Statement of E. R. French of Chesterville, Franklin County : 



"My crop consisting of 22 bushels, was grown on 58 rods, being 

 at the rate of sixty bushels to the acre. The soil upon which it 

 grew was a yellow loam, had been planted to potatoes, corn, and 

 turnips for three years previously, and had been manured with green 

 manure at the rate of three cords to the acre for three years previ- 

 ously, and a part of it was manured in the hill last year at the rate 

 of five cords to the acre. It was manured with green manure as 

 in previous years the last spring, and thoroughly cultivated in : and 

 one bushel of two rowed barley sowed April 21st, and harvested the 

 Ist of August. 



