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GRAIN. 



CYRUS KILBURN'S STATEMENT. 



BAR LEY. 



The field on which my barley grew, contains 239 rods ; 

 it is a clayey loam; was planted with corn in 1858, 

 with about twenty loads barn-yard manure ; and also 

 with corn in 1859 with about twenty-five loads barn_ 

 yard manure, was plowed once five or six inches deep • 

 harrowed; sowed about the middle of April with a 

 mixture of two and six rowed barley from St. Johns, 

 C. E., at the rate of three bushels per acre ; and was 

 mowed about the last of July, raked, cocked and covered 

 with hay caps; when dry, carted to the barn and 

 threshed, with a threshing machine, from the cart. No 

 manure was used for the present crop. 



Cost of plowing, &c., _ - - . - $6,00 



Seed and sowing, - - , - - - 6,00 



Harvesting, - - - - - -8,00 



Total, $20,00 



Produce, 2685 lbs. barley, weighed August 2d; and 

 about two tons of straw. 



SOLON CARTER'S STATEMENT. 



BARLEY. 



The acre which produced my barley was in grass in 

 1858, without manure; in corn in 1859, Avith twenty- 

 five loads manure spread and plowed in ; the soil is a 

 clayey loam ; it was plowed by splitting the hills, two 

 furrows to a row, November 16, 1859, and in April, these 

 were split as before and plowed once eight to ten inches 

 deep ; sowed April 25th, with two and one-half bushels 

 two rowed barley ; harrowed, bushed, rolled and mowed 



