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the effect of season, not to exceed ten bushels per acre in my 

 experience. 



The yield per acre is from 30 to 80 bushels ; the difference 

 in yield is due to manure and tillage. We have instances of 

 10 bushels, again of over 100 per acre. 



Potatoes are planted after corn, averaging 150 bushels per 

 acre. 



Onions are raised in the southeast part of the town to a 

 considerable extent, yielding 400 or 500 bushels per acre. 



Tobacco, broom corn, beans and root crops are not raised 

 in sufficient quantity to be worthy of notice. 



H. M. Knight, (Lakeville,) Salisbury. 



I am poorly fitted to reply to your questions, so far as 

 speaking for others. 

 I raised the last year, 



Potatoes, 100 bushels per acre. 



Corn, 25 " " 



Oats, 30 " " 



Carrots, about 30 tons per acre. 



My oat ground was good, but the crop was not good. 



My corn and potato ground was very poor and I planted it 

 as much for the sake of the ground as for the crop, using 

 what manure I had. I have inquired carefully, and the gen- 

 eral testimony is that corn will average 50 bushels per acre, 

 potatoes 100, and oats 30. 



Hay was very light. 



I have ploughed several acres and seeded again with timo- 

 thy for a hay crop next year. 



The grass roots were killed by the dry weather, and in most 

 of our old upland meadows there can be no good crop of grass 

 again until seed is sown. I sowed my grass seed for a crop 

 next year in the early days of September. 



The Farmers' Club of West Cornwall report the following 

 acreage and average of the principal crops in Cornwall. 



