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12. Barley. Is this cultivated on most farms ? 



What soil is most favorable, how prepared, and how manured ? 

 What quantity of seed, and what the average product to an acre ? 

 Is it found useful to cut barley a little before it is perfectly ripe ? 

 To what uses is the grain applied, and to what the straw ? 



13. Oats. How many acres, or, what proportion of tilled land, 

 on farms of average size, are sown with oats ? 



Wliat soil is most favorable ? 



How is the land prepared, and manured ? 



What kind of seed is preferred ? 



How much is sown upon an acre, and what is the average crop ? 



Do oats succeed best on ground broken up the preceding fall ? 



Does f^rass succeed well on most soils, when sown with oats ? 



Are oats often cut green by choice for fodder ? 



When so cut, what is the average crop on an acre ? 



14. Millet. Have you cultivated millet ? 



If so, what observations have you made on the value of the grain 

 and straw ? 



15. Buckwheat. How much seed is sown upon an acre, and 

 what is the average product ? 



Is it cultivated for food ? 



Is it ever ploughed in as a green crop to fertilize the soil ? 



Is grass seed ever sown with buckwheat, and with what success ? 



16. Flax. What quantity of land on farms of average size is 

 devoted to flax ? 



What soil is found most favorable ? 



How is it prepared, and manured ! 



What quantity of seed to an acre ? 



Is any benefit derived from a frequent change of seed ? 



What is the usual time of sowing flax seed ? 



Wl)at is the more common method of preparing and dressing the 



flax? 



What is the average quantity of dressed flax, and of seed, from an 



acre ? 



17. Hemp. Have you cultivated hemp ? 



What is the appropriate soil, and the mode of preparing and ma- 

 nuring it ? 



How much seed to an acre ? 

 How is the hemp prepared, and dressed ? 

 What the average quantity of dressed hemp from an acre ? 

 Is it not a profitable crop ? 



18. Beans. How are beans cultivated ? 

 What kind of field beans yields the best crop ? 

 Are they usually plaiited in drills ? 



What quantity of seed to an acre, and what the average crop ? 

 Do beans ever suffer iniury from rust ? 

 To what use are the dried vines applied ? 



19. Peas. How are peas cultivated ? 

 Are they sown broadcast, or in drills ? 



What quantity of seed to an acre, and what the average product? 

 Is the crop ever cut green, and made into fodder for sheep ? 



