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Crops, one hundred and twenty bushels. There were also many 

 in other parts of the county which looked very promising, the 

 exact yields from which we have not learned. Facts of this kind 

 are a sufficient answer to alleged impossibiUties. 



Within a few years the practice has been revived of raising 

 wheat in this county. Every real practical farmer ought to raise 

 every thing towards the support of his family, which he can raise 

 without actual loss. Possibly in some one year wheat may fail ; 

 but in four years out of five, success may be considered certain. 

 The flour may not be as white as that from the West, but it is as 

 sweet, and it is the farmer's own. By comparing the returns 

 from Norfolk county with those from the State of New York, we 

 find the average crop here is full as large as there. We read of 

 yields of seven, ten, twelve, twenty bushels per acre, and in un- 

 usual cases of forty bushels. With us the yield is rarely less than 

 twenty, and in one instance it has gone as high as thirty-two. 

 Mr. L. Clapp, of Stoughton, has averaged twenty-two bushels of 

 spring wheat for four years. Capt. Mason, of Medway, has ave- 

 raged twenty bushels for ten years. T. Clarke, Esq., of Walpole, 

 has this season raised excellent wheat at the rate of twenty-five 

 bushels to the acre. We think he might have had five more if he 

 had seeded higher. Of course every farmer must judge of the 

 necessary amount of seed from the character and condition of his 

 land. Perhaps the average will be from five to six pecks. We 

 have heard of several good yields in the lower part of the county, 

 the details of which have not yet reached us. 



Barley is not extensively raised in this county. A few good 

 crops have come to our knowledge. It is considered by some a 

 very profitable crop for hogs, and its straw brings more than half 

 the price of English hay. Barley is also highly esteemed as fod- 

 der, when cut at the right season. It is a powerful feeder, and 

 requires a warm, strong soil, well manured, with a previous hoed 

 crop, and kept clean. Rank, green manure should be cautiously 

 used, for it tends to cause the barley to run to straw, and increases 

 its hability to rust. From two to three bushels of seed must be 

 sown early in the spring. The crop must be gathered in good 

 season, because, if delayed, it loses by shelling out. 



Our grass crop was large and good, though seriously injured 

 by rain during the latter part of the hay-making season. It is 

 gratifying to observe, in every direction, improvements in the cul- 

 ture of grass fields, especially these two ; first, the reclaiming 

 and seeding of meadows ; second, the breaking up and cultivating 

 grass land every third or fourth year, instead of eking out poor 

 crops by top-dressings. Much is also done in raising pure seed, 



