282 
EXTRAORDINARY YIELD OF BARLEY. 
to let air or light into the roost. In the back, or 
northerly side, there is a large lattice window, three 
feet above the floor or ground, 4 by 12 feet, 
for the purpose of affording fresh air to the sitting 
hens. In the front, or southerly side, there is a 
large glazed window, 4 by 12 feet, and another in 
the southerly side of the roof, of a corresponding 
size, designed to admit the light and heat of the 
sun, in cold weather, to stimulate the laying hens. 
In the southerly side, there are also two small aper¬ 
tures three feet above the floor or ground, for the 
ingress and egress of the fowls. These openings 
may be provided with sliding shutters, as well as 
with “ lighting boards,” inside and out, and may 
be guarded by sheets of tin, nailed on below them, 
to prevent the intrusion of rats, weasels, or skunks. 
The building may be constructed of wood or 
other materials, and of such style, or order of 
architecture, as may suit one’s taste, only preserving 
the internal arrangements and proportions, in refer¬ 
ence to breadth and height. As a general rule, as 
regards the length of the building, each hen, irre¬ 
spective of the cocks, may be allowed a foot. 
Fig. 71 shows the ground plan of the above, in 
which X, denotes the laying apartment; 77, the 
hatching room, each 6 by 20 feet; n, n , $*c., nest 
boxes for laying, 14 by 14 inches, and 10 inches 
deep; o, o, $*c., nest boxes for the sitting hens, of the 
same size; l : a ladder, or steps, leading into the 
loft; and s, a stove for warming the apartment, if 
desirable, when the weather is cold. 
Fig. 72 shows a transverse, or cross section, of 
the building, from the bottom to the top, with the 
internal arrangements. X, denotes the laying 
apartment, and XT, the hatching room, divided in the 
middle by a partition ; n, the nest boxes, resting on 
tables, three feet above the floor or ground; A, 6, 
boxes, or troughs, containing water, grain, brick 
dust, sand, ground oyster shells, or other materials 
for the convenience of the fowls; d, an aperture, 
or door, three feet above the ground or floor, for 
the ingress and egress of the fowls; a, a lattice 
window, three feet above the floor or ground, for 
the admission of fresh air to the sitting hens; 
R , the roosting place, or loft, shut off from 
the laying and sitting apartments by the ceil¬ 
ings, c, c; A, a hole, or opening in the ceiling, for 
the escape of the air below into the loft; v, the 
ventilator at the peak of the roof; p, the roosting 
pole, or perch; t. a trough, or box, for retaining 
the droppings, or dung. 
EXPENSE AND PROFITS IN RAISING- INDIAN 
CORN. 
The following interesting statement on the cul¬ 
tivation of Indian corn, by Levi T. Marshall, of 
Vernon, Oneida county, we find in the Transactions 
of the New-York State Agricultural Society, for 
1848;— 
The land upon which the following crops of corn 
grew was upon the flats of the Shenandoah Creek, 
six miles below its head waters, and being situated 
about 100 feet below the summit level of the 
Chenango Canal. The soil a brown mould, in 
good condition^ with a previous cropping of meadow 
hay for thirty successive years. Corn planted 
23d of May, upon the inverted sod, in hills three 
feet apart. One acre plowed in the spring, the 
other in the fall; the one plowed in the spring 
producing five bushels the most. Four and five 
kernels dropped in the hill, that number being 
designed to be left standing, and appeared above 
ground in about five days after planting. The 
eight-rowed yellow variety planted, with eight 
quarts to the acre; hoed twice, the cultivator also 
having been passed twice in a row previous to each 
hoeing ; stalks topped the 20th September, yielding 
two loads to the acre. The crop was not planted 
with particular reference to obtaining a premium, 
and the subscriber not being timely informed of the 
rules of the society as to the time of shelling and 
mode of management, it was sold, to be delivered 
by the 1st of December, and accordingly shelled 
from the 25th to the 30th of November, it then 
being dry and suitable for grinding, and the num¬ 
ber of bushels estimated, by weight, it being sold 
in that way, and yielding 123 bushels and 20 pounds 
upon two acres of land. Sold at 50 cents at the 
Vernon Centre Mills. 
EXPENSE OF CULTIVATION 
Two days’ plowing, . 
$3.00 
One day’s harrowing and marking 
', 1.50 
Four days’ planting, . 
3.00 
Twelve days’ hoeing, . 
9.00 
Two days’ topping stalks, . 
1.50 
Ten days’ harvesting, . 
7.50 
Four days’ shelling, . 
3.00 
Drawing to market, (two miles,) . 
3.00 
Seed and surveying crop, 
2.38 
Interest on land,.... 
7.00 
Total expense, .... 
$40.88 
173 10-56 bushels, at 50 cts., . 
$86.68 
Stalks,. 
10.00 
$96.68 
Deduct expense, 
40.88 
Profit,. 
$55.80 
EXTRAORDINARY YIELD OF BARLEY. 
From the State Transactions, we copy the fol¬ 
lowing statement of a field of barley, by Melas 
Adams, of Martinsburgh, Lewis county, N. Y.:— 
The previous crop was peas, sowed on sward 
land, on which 20 loads of unfermented yard 
manure was spread previous to plowing for the 
crop. The manure did not extend over the whole 
field. The field has lain in meadow 11 or 12 years. 
The soil has not been analyzed, but to give it a 
common name. I should call it a clay loam with a 
stiff retentive subsoil. Location in East Martins¬ 
burgh a mile west of the Black River, and on an 
elevation above the bed of the river of 135 feet. 
Applied 10 loads only of manure on a part of the 
field which received none on the pea crop, and 
spread evenly over the ground before plowing for 
the barley. Sowed on the 2d of May 2| bushels 
of the two-rowed kind to the acre. Harvested the 
crop on the 4th of August, and put it in cocks the 
same day, where it remained six days, when it was 
drawn to the barn ; threshed the whole during the 
present month by putting a pile on the barn floor 
and treading out with horses—the old Dutch 
