170 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



BARLEY. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Statement of Benjamin Safford. 



The soil where my barley grew is a gravelly loam. The 

 crop of 1857 was corn and turnips, with about seven cords 

 of compost, mostly stable manure, per acre; that of 1858, corn 

 manured as in 1857. It was ploughed, April 18 to 20, once, 

 six to seven inches deep; harrowed both ways; sowed, April 

 22, without manure, with three and three-fourths bushels com- 

 mon two-rowed barley per acre, and mowed the last week in 

 July. 



Cost of ploughing and harrowing, . . $8 00- per acre. 



Seed and sowing, . . . . 8 90 



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Total, except harvesting and threshing, . $6 90 per acre. 



I consider the straw worth the expense of harvesting and 

 threshing. 



Produce, 22* bushels of barley, which weighed 51 pounds 

 per bushel on 79 rods, equal to 45 1 bushels per acre by measure, 

 or 18^ bushels by standard weight. 



OATS. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



Statement of S. D. Davenport. 



The 172 rods of land surveyed by William F. Ellis, Esq., 

 on which my oats were raised, is a heavy loam, with clay 

 bottom. It had a good coat of manure in 1857 and 1858, and 

 was planted with corn each year. Early in the spring of 1859 

 I sunk about one-fourth part of the rocks and all the small 

 stones <m the piece. This I did for two reasons — one to get 

 rid of the stones, the other because the land is very wet in the 



