GRAIN. 



99 



Total, except maimre, only one-third of tlie strength of which I suppose 



to be exhausted, $43,00. 

 Produce, by actual measure, 132 bushels barley, - $132,00 



And four tons straw, - - - 28 00 



Total value of crop, - - - $160,00 



BENJAMIN SAFFORD'S STATEMENT. 



BAR LEY. 



The soil where my barley grew is a gravelly loam. 

 The crop of 1857 was corn and turnips^ with about 

 seven cords of compost, mostly stable manure, per acre ; 

 that of 1858, corn manured as in 1857. It was plowed, 

 April 18 to 20, once, six to seven inches deep ; har- 

 rowed both ways; sowed, April 22, without manure, 

 Avith three and three-fourths bushels common two-rowed 

 barley per acre, and mowed the last week in July. 



Cost of plowing and harrowing, - - $3,00 per acre. 



Seed and sowing, - - - 3,90 " 



Total^ except harvesting and threshing, 6,90 per acre. 



I consider the straw worth the expense of harvesting 

 and threshing. 



Produce, 22 i bushels of barley, which weighed 51 lbs. 

 per bushel on 79 rods, equal to 45 J bushels per acre by 

 measure, or 48 1-3 bushels by standard weight. 



EDWARD SMITH'S STATEMENT. 



CORN. 



The field on which my corn grew is a heavy soil on 

 a clay sub-soil. It contains about one and one-half 

 acres. The crop of 1857 was grass, without manure ; 

 that of 1858, potatoes, with twelve loads compost. It 

 was plowed twice, seven inches deep ; manured with 



