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county. It is thought to be inferior in quality when 

 grown here to that produced in some other districts. 

 Requiring equal labor with wheat, and not yielding 

 any more per acre, while its market value is less than 

 one half, its cultivation has been in a great measure 

 abandoned. 



The culture of barley has also been an unsuccessful 

 experiment ; not yielding more than twenty bushels 

 per acre, while its cultivation is very troublesome. 

 With regard to profit, it may be ranked with rye, 

 neither of them giving a sufficient remuneration for the 

 disagreeableness of encountering their lengthy beards. 



Clover, happily for us, grows luxuriantly in our soil. 

 At once useful for pasture, hay, and the improvement 

 of the soil, it is an invaluable crop, and should at once 

 be introduced upon every farm. Those, however, who 

 expect to produce a kind of magical effect upon their 

 fields, by merely scattering a few seeds over them, will 

 most surely be disappointed. A gallon of seed per 

 acre is necessary to produce a good crop. 



Buckwheat is grown in small quantities ; and, as the 

 crop is rather precarious and the demand for it limited, 

 its cultivation cannot become much more extensive. 



Of flax, which was at one time extensively culti- 

 vated for domestic purposes, but little is now grown. 



Experiments on a small scale have been tried in the 

 culture of he7np ; but the amount and disagreeable 

 nature of the labor required to fit it for market Tenders 

 it rather an undesirable crop. ' Neither does much of our 

 soil seem well suited for its growth. 



Field beans have been raised to some extent for the 

 southern market. The demand being small, large 

 crops would be unsaleable. But as an article of home 

 consumption, they are worth the attention of the 

 farmer. Sown in drills, and cultivated like corn, they 

 produce about twenty bushels per acre. 



A cheaper and more abundant supply of food for 

 stock than is afforded by exhausting farinaceous crops, 



