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John G. Woodward's Statement. 



BARLEY. 



The soil in which I raised my barley is clayey. In 1863, 1 

 had grass in the same field, and in 1864, raised corn and 

 potatoes, applying sixteen loads green manure. 



For the present crop, I plowed May 23d, seven inches 

 deep, and then harrowed in eighteen loads of manure. 

 June 1 st, sowed, broadcast, three bushels of two-rowed barley. 

 Mowed August 17th, harvesting 38 1-8 bushels of barley and 

 2730 lbs. straw. 



Cost of plowing, &c, 

 " " seed and sowing, 

 " " manure, 

 " " harvesting, 



$31 25 



Cyrus Kilbwii's Statement. 

 WHITE BEANS. 



The soil on which I raised my beans is dark sandy loam. 

 In 1863 I raised potatoes, and in 1864 corn, on the same 

 ground, applying manure at the rate of twenty loads to the 

 acre. For the present crop, I plowed once, in June, six inches 

 deep, put two loads compost manure in the hill, hoed with 

 a hand-hoe three times; pulled and stocked about the 1st of 

 September. My beans are of an early variety, (white pea 

 bean,) ripen in eighty or ninety days from planting. They 

 were planted so near, one hill to another, that the vines nearly 

 covered the ground, not more than eighteen inches apart each 

 way, three to six beans in a hill. The square rod selected 

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