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cocked and covered with hay caps ; when dry, carted to the 

 barn and threshed, with a threshing machine, from tlie cart. 

 No manure was used for the present crop. 



Cost of ploughing, &c., . 

 seed and sowing, 

 harvesting, 



Total, 



$6 00 

 6 00 

 8 00 



mo 00 



Produce, 2,685 lbs. barley, weighed August 2d ; and about 

 two tons of straw. 



Statement of Solon Carter. 



The acre which produced my barley was in grass in 1858, 

 without ma,nure ; in corn in 1859, with twenty-five loads 

 manure spread and ploughed in ; the soil is a clayey loam ; 

 it was ploughed by splitting the hills, two furrows to a row, 

 November 16th, 1859, and in April, these were split as before and 

 ploughed once eight to ten inches deep ; sowed April 25th, with 

 two and one-half bushels two-rowed barley ; harrowed, bushed, 

 rolled and mowed by hand, July 27th. No manure was used 

 for the present crop. 



Cost of ploughing, &c., $5 00 



seed and sowing, 2 75 



harvesting, 7 00 



Total, $14 75 



Produce, 1,700 lbs. barley, weighed October 4th ; and one 

 and three-quarters tons of straw. 



The crop was, during its growth, a very promising one, but 

 just as it headed there came a rain, accompanied with wind, 

 which beat it down so that it never recovered, consequently 

 much of it did not mature. I think the crop was made one- 

 third less by this accident, if so it may be called. 



