218 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Value of crop : — 

 29 bushels, at |1, . . . . . $29 00 

 2,500 lbs. straw, at 30 cents, . . . 7 50 



$36 50 



Expenses : — 

 Seed, '$1.25 ; ploughing and harrowing, $1, $2 25 

 Harvesting, |2 ; threshing, $6.90, . . 8 90 



Interest on land valued at |200, . . . 12 00 



$23 15 



Net profit, $13 35 



Sunderland, Nov. 15, 1857. 



B A 11 L E Y . 



BRISTOL. 



Statement of George R. Leonard. 



The barley offered for premium, was raised on a poor, gravelly 

 loam, with a clay subsoil, having a level surface of one acre. 

 Last year the land was planted to corn, and the condition of the 

 land had been much improved by previous cultivation. The 

 land was in corn hills in the spring of 1856. I spread seven 

 cords of barnyard manure, and ploughed in the same. I sowed 

 three bushels of barley, of the four-rowed kind, on the fifth day 

 of May, which I harrowed and rolled in ; after sowing, nothing 

 more was done until harvesting. I mowed and raked with a 

 horse-rake, the crop from the above acre on the 19th of July, 

 1856 ; I finished threshing and winnowing on January 30th, 

 1857. 



The above crop from the acre weighed 1,750 lbs., which at 

 46 lbs. for a bushel, will be 38 bushels and 2 lbs. on the acre. 

 In making the following statements in relation to the profit of 

 the crop, I have given no credit to the manure, (which I charged 

 $21,) for the benefit of future crops : — 



