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In Warwick, the average yield of corn given is from twenty 

 to thirty bushels per acre. South Deerfield, thirty bushels. Sun- 

 derland, thirty-five bushels. The same farmer in Sunderland 

 has produced eighty bushels per acre. In Leverett it is stated 

 that the gravelly plain land will once in four years give an av- 

 erage yield of twenty bushels per acre without manure. In 

 Whately, thirty-five bushels. Another estimate, twenty-five to 

 forty bushels. In Charlemont, fifty bushels. In Rowe, thirty-five 

 to forty bushels. In Ashfield, thirty bushels. In Conway, 

 thirty bushels, and forty bushels. In Hawley, fifty bushels 

 have been produced. In Buckland, fifty to seventy bushels ; 

 and, in one case, eighty-three bushels have been raised per acre. 

 The difference between the extremes in this case, between 

 twenty and thirty and seventy and eighty bushels, is deserving 

 the particular attention of cultivators. When it is demonstrated 

 that the expenses of culture are not increased in proportion to 

 the amount of the crop, why should the farmers be satisfied 

 with any thing short of the very best products ? An experi- 

 enced farmer in Deerfield has practised planting corn and po- 

 tatoes in alternate rows ; and has, in this way, obtained in a 

 season, from one acre of land, seventy bushels of corn and one 

 hundred and thirty bushels of potatoes. This method has 

 been adopted by some other farmers out of the county with a 

 success, which induces them to pursue it. It is thought the 

 corn is benefited in this way by a more free access of the sun 

 to the plant, and a larger opportunity of extending its leaves. 



3. Oats. — The next crop cultivated in this county is oats. The 

 average yield is thirty-five bushels. In Rowe, the crop is rated, 

 under good cultivation, at from forty to fifty bushels per acre. 

 In Buckland, fifty bushels is stated as the average. Seventy 

 bushels are sometimes obtained. In Hawley, forty to fifty 

 bushels. In Warwick, thirty-five to fifty bushels ; sixty are 

 sometimes obtained. The crop is generally taken after corn, 

 and in many instances, grass-seed is sowed with the oats and 

 the land laid down. In some instances, clover is sown with the 



