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BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



The Early Rose is a universal favorite. I have heard of 

 400 bushels per acre ; 100 bushels per acre will be nearer 

 the average." 



Tobacco is the staple in this town, and to its production all 

 the skill and means of the farmers are devoted. Every sort 

 of manure is used and in almost every way. Drilling is fast 

 gaining favor, and with a well prepared compost is undoubt- 

 edly the best. Nearly 300 acres are raised in town, and will 

 probably average this year 1800 pounds per acre. 



Grass, clover, and vegetable seeds are not raised for the 

 market, and in fact not much raised any way. 



No market gardening to speak of. I think I can see a 

 marked improvment in the mode of culture and in the 

 amount of production per acre of the crops cultivated. 



Amasa Morse, Union. 



Notwithstanding nearly all our people own the farms they 

 live on, yet very few of them live principally by farming. 

 There is probably raised in town yearly about 120 acres of 

 corn at an average yield of 30 bushels per acre, 150 acres of 

 potatoes at a yield of 150 bushels per acre, 120 acres of oats 

 at 25 bushels per acre. There is occasionally a piece of 

 buckwheat at' about 20 bushels per acre, occasionally a piece 

 of rye at from 10 to 25 bushels per acre. A few raise barley 

 instead of oats, and get from 20 to 30 bushels per acre. 



There is rarely any wheat, tobacco, or broom corn raised. 

 Very few roots or onions. 



Our principal crops are corn, potatoes, oats and grass. Va- 

 rious modes of preparing the ground and raising these crops 

 are practised. My own course is the following. If I raise 

 buckwheat I plow a piece of sward land in the spi ing if I 

 have not done it the fall before, harrow it, sow on a bushel of 

 seed and 125 pounds superphosphate of lime, and harrow it 

 in ; generally get 20 bushels per acre. The next year follow 

 it with potatoes by plowing the ground, manuring in the hill 

 with green stable manure from cattle, rows 3|^feet apart, hills 

 in row 2^ feet ; generally get about 200 bushels per acre. 



