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tons of manure spread on it, and was ploughed and sowed with 

 one and a quarter bushels rye, with grass seed, on the 22d 

 September, 1857. The rye was harvested and produced thirty 

 and one-half bushels by weight, and two and one-fourth tons 

 straw. 



Yalue of the crop : — 



31f measured bushels, at $1, |31 75 



21 tons straw, at 17.50, 16 87 



Expenses 

 Ploughing, 

 Seed Rye, 

 Harrowing, 



Reaping, 

 Threshing, 

 Manure, . 



Profit, (charging all manure to this crop,) 

 September 16, 1858. 



121 87 



BARLEY. 



BARNSTABLE. 



Statement of Thoinas Harris. 

 My crop of barley was on a mixed loam, containing one acre. 

 It was planted with corn in 1857, and manured with barnyard 

 manure and sea-weed, ploughed under to the depth of six 

 inclies. On the 19th April, 1858, I ploughed about same 

 depth and sowed 200 lbs. Peruvian guano on the furrow, har- 

 rowed it in, and sowed two bushels of two-rowed barley, which 

 was thoroughly cross-liarrowed in. Harvested about the 25th 

 July. The crop weighed 1,500 lbs., or thirty-two bushels, and 

 twenty-eight pounds, at forty-six pounds the bushel. The cost 

 was as follows : — 



