$92 09 



BARLEY. 201 



Reaping, binding, and stooking, . 

 Moving and stacking, 

 Threshing and winnowing, . 



Value of the crop : — 

 132| bushels rye, at 90 cents, . 



7 tons, 300 lbs. straw, at 75 cents per 

 cwt., 



226 77 



$134 68 



The above crop is at the rate of forty-seven and a half 

 bushels to the acre ; and the land on which it was raised has 

 always been called worn-out plain, and considered worth about 

 $50 per acre. 



Milton, September 26, 1853. 



BARLEY. 



BERKSHIRE. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



E. R. Colt, Pittsfield, and E. S. Rowley, of Richmond, showed 

 us crops, which in some seasons, would have commanded some- 

 thing more than a badge of honor. It seems as yet, to be an 

 open question whether the two or six-rowed barley gives the 

 best returns. The six-rowed has shorter heads, and usually 

 lighter kernels, but more in number. It appeared to us, as we 

 saw them growing adjacent to each other, that the two-rowed 

 would bear sowing some thicker than the other, and is not as 

 liable to fall down before it is well filled. "We saw splendid 

 crops of both kinds. 



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