280 board of agriculture. 



Henry E. Lyman, Columbia. 



In answer to yonr circular in regard to varieties of crops 

 raised, I would say that this town has as diversified a numlier 

 of crops as any in the state. 



Among the crops relied upon as staples, anp corn, potatoes, 

 oats, buckwheat and onions. Comparatively little is done in 

 raising tobacco, though this year marks a decided increase in 

 this crop. Beans are not grown to any extent. Rye and 

 barley cannot be said to have very general cultivation. No 

 broom corn is rjiised. Root crops for feeding are not gen- 

 eral. 



My corn this season is medium, not a heavy yield. Oats 

 hea'vy and large yield, mostly common white oats ; my oats 

 are good, better than for years, from one and a half acres 

 sixty and a half bushels. Corn, acreage one and three-fourths. 

 No buckwheat or tobacco. Onions good, yielding three hun- 

 dred and fifty to four hundred per acre, with light manuring 

 on ncAV ground ; last year was corn where I grew onions ; 

 eight loads of barn yard manure on fifty five rods of ground ; 

 one bushel salt all the fertilizer when sown. After third 

 weeding fifteen bushels of ashes. Potatoes fair to good ; my 

 ground suffered from the dry weather early in the season, 

 my crop about one hundred bushels on one acre. Early 

 Rose and Chili's the varieties grown. The Early Rose re- 

 quires extra care and extra fertilizing to produce an equal 

 amount, thereby proving uncertain when put upon ground 

 not in excellent heart. In this some cultivators may not 

 agree with me. 



As regards corn, my experience is that late fall ploughing 

 of sward land is most beneficial in two points of view. 1st. 

 It removes worms that infest land turned over in the spring. 

 2d. There is such a chemical change working in soil exposed 

 to winter weather, that it produces just the right condition of 

 things to insure an early crop. 



My formula theiefore is: for corn deep late plowing, me- 

 dium spiing turning, wnth cross harrowing. This is all the 

 preparation necessary. 



