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The land on which the above was raised was a dark loam, in 

 good condition, from which, the last year, was raised a crop of 

 corn. The rye was sowed after cutting up the corn the last of 

 September, and sown with grass seed, which promises well. 



West Springfield, November 8, 1860. 



BARLEY. 



ESSEX. 



Statement of John L. Hubbard. 

 I would call your attention to a crop of barley raised by me 

 on one hundred and forty-six rods of land. This crop was 

 raised on two pieces of land, the whole being included in the 

 survey, and at the time of sowing was supposed to contain one 

 acre. The first lot of fifty-nine rods and eleven links, had been 

 under cultivation three years ; two with corn, and one with 

 potatoes, as a kind of experimental lot to test the best manner 

 of applying manure ; but the trial being unsatisfactory, I will 

 only say that the land was well manured, and carefully culti- 

 vated. The soil is a clay loam, the clay in some spots cropping 

 out. Its produce being less than half a ton of very poor hay 

 to the acre, and lying adjoining a fresh meadow, is what is 

 usually called cold, heavy land. It was ploughed the last week 

 in April, and six loads, of twenty-five bushels each, spread on . 

 the furrow and harrowed in. The manure was from the horse 

 stable, worked over by the hogs. After harrowing, the land, 

 from its clayey texture, was very niibby, so much so that a 

 roller was passed over it before sowing ; two bushels of seed 

 were sown ; it was harrowed once, the grass seed sown and 

 harrowed, and finished by rolling. The seed came up quick, 

 even, and grew rapidly, and on the 17th day of June some of 

 it was in head ; on the 4th of July it was in full head, and had 

 begun to show the " red row," standing about three and a half 

 feet high, being the liandsomest barley 1 ever saw. A shower 

 on that day beat down a part of it, which never came up again. 



