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Contra. Cr. 



By 51| bushels of sound shelled corn, at $1.34 per bushel, !^G8 57 

 Value of manure out for next year, . . . 6 00 



,^74 57 



I will here remark, that I have not stuifed my land with manure 

 for the pleasure of telling a great story, neither do I believe it 

 economy so to do. My land received about the same quantity of 

 maniire the year previous as last year, and I consider it in as high 

 a state of cultivation as is prudent for the next crop, in this fertile 

 country where we frequently have our grain lodge, blight or rust in 

 consequence of too large a growth of straw. Experience has taught 

 me that in Northern Maine we ought to cultivate our seed so as to 

 not cheat ourselves. This season I cut up my corn with the tops, 

 while last year I cut the tops off and let it ripen in the field, which 

 I prefer when the season is favorable — all of which depend on cir- 

 cumstances. We may talk of raising one hundred bushels or more 

 to the acre with ease, and make it profitable ; for my part, if I raise 

 fifty I think it a smart crop, and forty or even thirty-five preferable 

 to some other crops." 



Morgan L. Gerry. 



The third premium on Indian corn was awarded to Jacob San- 

 ders, on thirty bushels shelled corn, seven hundred pumpkins and 

 two bushels beans per acre. 



Wheat. First premium to John Davis for thirty- three bushels 

 on one and three-fourths of an acre ; the land was in wheat the year 

 previous, on the burn. 



Second premium to Joseph R. Cushman ; amount of crop not 

 given. 



Oats. John Davis, first premium on seventy-seven bushels of 

 thirty-seven pounds each, struck measure, on one acre and eleven 

 rods of light slaty loam ; was in wheat last year, after a burn ; no 

 manure ; stubble plowed in. 



Second premium to J. B. Gerry, on sixty-five bushels of thirty- 

 seven pounds each, on one acre and four rods light slaty soil j trees 

 felled two or three years ago. 



