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Total value of crop, brought forward, $200 00 



Deduct expenses, . 96 25 



Net profit, $103 75 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



RuFDs C. Sanborn. 

 Hampton Falls, Oct. 23, 1856. 



• We are indebted to Mr. Joseph Winslow of Epping, for 

 the following statement relative to a croD of corn raised 

 by him ; the same not having been entered for a premium. 

 Mr. W. may be considered as one of the most successful 

 producers of this crop in the county, and his method of 

 raising it may be safely, and without doubt, beneficially 

 practised by any agriculturist in our midst. The secretary 

 of the society would like to receive similar statements 

 from any of its members. 



To the Committee on Crops : 



Gentlemen — I propose to give an account of a lot of 

 corn grown on my farm the past season, and described as 

 follows : Lot No. 2 in field A, and containing one hundred 

 and fifty-one rods ; on which grew eighty-nine baskets of 

 corn, exclusive of a lot of green corn. The ears were 

 measured in a basket holding one and a half bushels ; we 

 have shelled several baskets of corn, the average yield be- 

 ing thirty quarts from each basket of ears, making eighty- 

 three bushels and fourteen quarts of shelled corn on the 

 lot, and equal to eighty-nine bushels to the acre. 



Surface of the lot on which said corn grew is rolling, on 

 a southern slope ; the soil is a light colored loam, contain- 

 ing a large per cent, of mineral matter, of very easy culti- 

 vation when well ploughed. 



Preparation. — April, 1855, six and one half cords of 

 green manure were spread on tlic soil and plouglipd in, 

 furrow slice about twelve inches wide by eight deep ; 

 planted with potatoes and a good crop produced. May, 

 1856, spread seven cords of yard manure and ploughed la 



