BARLEY, OATS, BUCKWHEAT AND PEAS. Committee.-J. W. Ball, Martin Springer. The number of competitors on barley was four, and the samples presented were of excellent quality, and the yield per acre shows clearly superior skill in the management and cultivation of that crop. The committee award the premiums as follows: to Elisha M. Bradley, East Bloomfield, the first premium of $15, the amount being 50 1-2 bushels per acre; to E. R. Dix, of Vernon, Oneida co., the second of $10, being 48 bush., 28 qts.; the third to Benjamin Enos, of Madison co., 47 bushels per acre. Oats. But two applicants for premiums. To Peter Crispell, Jr., we award the first premium of $15, for 85 bushels 20 lbs. per acre; to Elisha M. Bradley, the second, $10, 75 bushels per acre. Buckwheat. But two samples. To Robert Eells, of Westmoreland, Oneida co., the first premium of $10, 33 bus. 22 lbs. per acre; to William Baker, Livingston co., the second, $10, 29 bus. 14 lbs.; being very nice samples. Peas. But one sample offered and that by E. S. Salisbury, of Jefferson co. We award to him the first premium, $10; amount per acre 27 1-2 bushels. The committee very much regret that peas and beans are so little noticed by our farming community, when they are in so common use and of such immense value to the farmer. It certainly must be admitted that they are among the most valuable crops raised by the farmer. Barley. E. M. BRADLEY, EAST BLOOMFIELD. The field had lain in meadow some six years previous to 1848, when it was plowed seven inches deep and planted to corn. Soil a sandy gravel intermixed with loam, some ten or twelve inches deep; a clay sub-soil. The field is nearly level, and is unprotected by woods or buildings. Last spring it was manured with about thirty loads of manure to the acre from a sheep hovel; plowed eight inches deep, and sowed the 10th of April, with three bushels of the two rowed variety of barley to the acre. Then roughly harrowed after sowing. No further culture. Ripe and harvested the last of July; cut with a hand cradle, bound up in small sheaves, and set up in open shocks to dry. Thrashed the first of September; well cleaned and measured in a sealed half bushel, and found to yield one hundred and one bushels of good merchantable barley, being 50 1-2 bushels per acre. The expenses of the crop were as fol lows: Two days plowing and dragging, hand and team,...... $4.00 Thrashing, cleaning, measuring and hauling to market,..... 6 00 $17 20 One hundred and one bushels barley, at 4s,... $50 50 6 00 $56 50 Leaving a balance in favor of the crop, of..... 39 30 (Proofs as required by the rules of the Society.) BARLEY.-E. R. DIX, VERNON, ONEIDA COUNTY. The land upon which the following crop of barley grew was upon rolling upland. Soil a gravel loam upon an underlayer of limestone rock. The previous crops corn, without manure. The cultivation for the barley crop was simply plowing once about ten inches deep. Seed sown broadcast, five bushels to the acre. The cultivator being passed once each way over the land after being sown. Seed sown the 13th of April. No manure applied. Farm supposed to be located 150 feet below the summit level of the Chenango canal. Crop mowed and raked with horse rake; thrashed with machine, and cleaned with fan mill. Harvested the 4th of August. The yield from two acres was ninetyseven bushels and 22 qts., by measure in a sealed half bushel. Two bushels being weighed, the remainder estimated by same weight, amounting to one hundred bushels twenty-seven pounds. Market value of the crop, fifty cents per bushel. (Proofs as required by the rules of the Society.) BARLEY-B. enos, de ruYTER, MADISON CO. Statement of field of barley containing three acres, one rood, and twenty-eight rods of ground. Variety two rowed, and yielded 161 bush. of first rate barley, measured in a sealed half bushel. Soil gravel, loam and sand. Last year planted with corn, and manured with about 120 loads of manure from my barn yards; no manure this year. Second and third of April plowed, and sowed on the twenty-third, ten bushels of the two rowed variety. Expense of the crop. Two days plowing, boy and team, Ten bush. of seed at 4s,.... Expense of harrowing, sowing and rolling,.... Harvested on the twenty-eighth of July, expense including By straw, the best I ever saw, worth at least,..... Cost per bush. including interest on land, and thrashing, (Proofs as required by the rules of the Society.) $2.00 5 00 1.50 3.00 12.00 7. 00 $31 50 Cr. $80 50 16 50 $97 00 31.00 $66 00 19 cents. 7 45-100 $19 39 OATS-PETER CRISPELL, JR., ULSTER CO. The ground on which my oats were raised was the ground on which corn of last year was raised, for which I obtained the state premium. It was not manured after the corn crop, was plowed at about the usual depth of my plowing, from seven to eight inches deep. My soil alluvial, I sowed four bushels to the acre of our common oats, on the twentieth of April; harvested and thrashed the crop the first week in August. The actual yield by measure, in a sealed half bush, 171 8-32 bush. The market value of the crop at present, is, in this place, about three shillings and sixpence per bush.. To plowing land,.... The Expense of Cultivation. To sowing and harrowing,... To cutting, gathering, thrashing and cleaning,... Value of oats at present time, $2.00 1 12 13.00 $16 12 74 91 $58 79 From which might be deducted the interest on the value of land, at $100 per acre. Dated November 26, 1849. (Proofs as required by the rules of the Society.) OATS.-E. M. BRADLEY, EAST BLOOMFIELD. The field (four acres) had lain to meadow five or six years previous to 1848, when it was manured with about 30 loads of common barnyard manure to the acre; plowed seven inches deep and planted to corn. The soil is gravelly loam, subsoil clay; field not protected by woods or buildings; has a gentle slope to the north and west; no manure was applied the last season; three bushels of seed (common black and white variety) were sown to the acre. Field plowed once, eight inches deep, and sown the 15th of April; no further culture; ripe and harvested the 10th of August; bound in small sheaves, set up in shocks and capped; left to stand until thoroughly dry; thrashed the first of September; measured in a sealed half bushel, and found to yield three hundred and fifteen bushels of marketable oats. An accurate account of the expenses and profits of the crop were kept, and are as follows: Expenses. To 4 days' plowing and dragging, hand and team,...... To 1-2 days' sowing,.. $92 60 Leaving a balance in favor of the crop of 4 acres, of,....... Average per acre 75 92-100 of a bushel. (Proofs as required by the rules of the society.) BUCKWHEAT.-WILLIAM BAKER, LIMA, LIVINGSTON COUNTY. The piece sown to buckwheat lay three years to pasture; the soil was gravelly, laying on the west side of a hill; no manure used. It was broke with a two horse team; one day's work per acre; sown on the 9th of July, 1849; harrowed in on the green sod; cut with a cradle; thrashed with a machine. Yield 29 bushels 14 quarts by measure to the acre; market value 50 cents per bushel. The piece contained about five acres, which had mostly grown over with Canada thistles. I took this method of cropping with buckwheat for their destruction, and I think it will prove successful, for I saw but few at harvest time. I would advise farmers to try the same means upon land infested with Canada thistles. Weight of buckwheat per bushel from 51 to 52 lbs. The weather being bad in harvest, we think caused a loss of five bushels to the acre. (Proofs as required by the rules of the society.) |