202 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



NORFOLK. 



Statement of Horatio Mason. 



The field of barley contains one acre. It embraces a variety 

 of soil, from a rich, gravel loam, on one side, to meadow mud 

 on the other. It was planted with corn last year. This spring, 

 the ground was ploughed, and spread with thirteen loads of 

 green manure, and ploughed in, and sown with two bushels of 

 four-rowed barley. The part of the field next to the upland is 

 weli adapted to this crop, and produced as fine a crop as I have 

 ever seen, while the flat land next to the meadow was very 

 light. 



Expense of cultivating: — 

 Twice ploughing, $2.50; cultivating and 



sowing, $1, . 

 Threshing and harvesting, .... 

 One-half the manure, $6.50 ; interest on 



land, at $70.42 per acre. 

 Two bushels seed, $2 ; taxes, say 30 cents, 



Cr. — By 40 bushels barley, at 90 cents, 

 East Medway, November, 1853. 



$13 50 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Spencer Leonard, Jr. 



The land on which I made an experiment in raising barley, is 

 a light sandy soil ; it was planted to corn last year, and pro- 

 duced a good crop. This year, it was ploughed April 29th and 

 May 3d ; three bushels of barley were sown per acre, and on 

 one-half of it, two hundred pounds super-phosphate of lime, 

 and the other half, two hundred pounds of plaster, and all well 

 harrowed in and rolled. There was no material difference in 

 either half of the acre, at any stage of its growth, or in the 

 grain adjoining, where nothing was applied. It was cut ia 



