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much inconvenience from this canse. It is very desirable that 

 all committees should have in good season, the facts upon 

 which their reports are based, that thus they may have suffi- 

 cient time to form their opinions deliberately, and make out 

 their reports with care. Unless opinions and reports rest upon 

 such a basis, they are of comparatively little value. 



Your committee, therefore, in closing their report, urgently 

 recommend the adoption and enforcement of the following 

 regulation, to wit: — That every person who puts in a claim 

 for a premium on any of the " grain crops," shall, on or be- 

 fore the 15th of November each year, send to the chairman of 

 the committee on the aforesaid crops, a written statement, 

 containing, besides any other suggestions that he may make, 

 the following particulars, viz. : — a description of the soil ; the 

 value of the land ; the annual interest on that value : the 

 amount of taxes; the value of manure, or ashes, or plaster 

 used ; the cost of seed ; the expense of preparing the ground; 

 of sowing or planting ; of cultivating and harvesting the crop; 

 and the total value of the crop raised ; that thus, by a single 

 glance, the net cost of the production may be seen. 



RALPH SANGER, Chairman. 



Horatio Masoivs Slatemeut on Barley. 



The field of barley which I entered for premium, contains 

 1.50 rods. Corn last year, with a light dressing of hog manure. 

 This spring, the land was ploughed and spread with 10 loads 

 green manure, and ploughed in. Sowed 1^ bushels of barley, 

 and harrowed in. The product, 37^ bushels. Barley has been 

 a favorite crop, but for the last ten years, it has not succeeded 

 as well as formerly. Last year I sowed a little, with a deter- 

 mination to abandon it altogether if there was no improvement. 

 I had a better crop than in the last six or eight years, and this 

 year the crop was a good one. The land was flat, the spring 

 wet, and the ground in bad order; so much so, that the grain 

 was not sowed imtil tlie last of May (about a month too late ) 

 I consider barley the best crop to lay down land with. It is 

 also a good substitute for corn, in fattening beef and pork, and 

 much easier raised. 



