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rode some miles to look at one of the Ame- 

 rican hundred-bushel crops, mentioned to 

 me by what in America is termed a man of 

 veracity. I did not expect it to be a hun- 

 dred bushels : but I did expect it to be some- 

 thing extraordinary. The ears, the gentle- 

 man told me, were more than one foot long. 

 But when I got to the place, the wheat was 

 harvested. I went into the barn, and got on 

 the mow; yet did not find an ear above two 

 inches and a half long: I am of opinion that 

 there might be ten or twelve bushels per acre. 

 It had stood very thick on the ground : for 

 I went to see the stubble. This wheat had 

 grown on land highly manured, about four 

 acres, within half a mile of a city. 



The produce of barley, in the Northern 

 States, from the best information, is., in good 

 crops, from twelve to twenty bushels per 

 acre, and much better in quality than in the 

 South. The weight is from forty to forty- 

 five pounds per bushel, and a rare sample 

 fifty pounds ; but that seldom happens. 

 Long-Island produces the best. New- 



