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tiijr four years previous, aud mowed three years iu succession for hay ; 

 each year it being plastered at the rate of 70 pounds to the acre, the 

 balance of the time used for sheep pasture. The soil is a sandy loam, 

 aubsoil clay. The surface is slightly undulating, presenting a south- 

 westerly inclination of ten feet to forty rods. The ground was intended 

 for wheat culture one year ago the past season, and twenty loads of sta- 

 ble and sheep yard manure had been hauled out the winter and spring 

 previous, and left in heaps of five to the load, eighteen feet apart. Du- 

 ring last winter and spring, an additional twenty loads to the acre was 

 hauled out and put on the heaps l^efore made, making in all forty loads 

 to the acre, three-fourths of a cord to the load. April 20th, commenc- 

 ed spreading the manure evenly, also plowing with a three hoi-se team, 

 turning a furrow sUce eight inches deep and twelve wide, leaving it on 

 an angle of forty-five degrees. May 8th, dragged with fine light drag, 

 lengthwise of the furrow, laping half Marked out each way four feet 

 apart; planted May 13th and 14th, the yellow dent com, five and six 

 kernels in a hill, the corn having been soaked in ham brine, made half 

 water, and blood warm, twenty-four houi-s previous ; after which, half 

 pint of tar made warm was thoroughly incorporated with half a bushel 

 of com, then rolled in plaster. It came up in ten days. The spring 

 was unfavorable for quick germination, being cold and wet. June 2d, 

 commenced cultivating lengthwise of the furrow, twice in each row, 

 then hoed, and reduced the plants to three in each hill, and sowed 80 

 pounds plaster, per acre, broadcast. 



Junfe 15th, commenced cultivating the second time, once in a row each 

 way, and hoed thoroughly, leaving the ground nearly level. July 5th, 

 commenced cultivating the third time, once in a row each way. Pre- 

 vious to the last way, quarter of a pound of globe and fiat turnip seed 

 was sowed to the acre. There were no weeds on the ground, Septem- 

 ber 1st, commenced cutting up corn close to the ground, putting twen- 

 ty-five hills in a stook. Husked in October and November, It yielded 

 one hundred and thirty bushel of ears to the acre, being six hundred 

 and sixty-five in all. One and a half bushels of ears making one bushel 

 of shelled corn, being at the rate of ninety bushels of shelled com to 

 the acre. Sixty-four pounds of this com when properly dried in the 

 ear, will yield fifty-six pounds of shelled com. 



