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first crop. I plowed it about five inches deep; it was a Blue 

 grass sod. I planted the corn the last week in April. I 

 marked the ground one way three feet four inches apart, as 

 near as I could, and drilled the other way about two feet • 

 and averaged three stalks in a hill; cultivated it twice in a 

 row; and plowed it at two different times, three furrows in 

 ^ ^^^' Aaron Drellijvger. 



I, Benjamin W. Elliott, do certify, that I helped to meas- 

 ure one-fourth of an acre of corn—an average fourth of an 

 acre, and helped husk the same, and there was thirty-three 

 and three-fourths bushels, on one-fourth of an acre, which 

 would make one hundred and thirty-five bushels of corn per 

 acre, of the above named corn. 



October 11, 1851. 



Benj. W. Elliott. 



ON- GRAIN-. 



To the Committee of the Wayne 



County Agricultural Society : 



I herewith transmit to you the culture and proceeds of 

 eight acres and eighty-eight roods of ground, on the farm of 

 Charles W. Starr, adjoining Richmond, planted in corn the 

 past season, by me. The soil is mostly a yellow loam ; had 

 been m corn the previous year; before that time it had been 

 m grass three years; it was measured when first plowed for 

 corn the crop before this. 



On the 17th of April I commenced plowing with three 

 plows, three days; plowed eight inches deep. 



Cost of plowing ^13 QQ 



lyth. Rolled one day o 00 



19th. Harrowed two days 4 Oq 



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