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ficient to bring the curd in twenty minutes; it is then put carefully 

 into a cheese-basket to drain the whey from the curd ; the morn- 

 ing's milk is managed in the same way. when the two curds are put 

 together and hung in the milk room, in the ccller, until the next 

 morning, when another curd, made in the same manner, is added, 

 and they are scalded together and put in press. I use a small tea 

 cup full of salt to forty pounds of curd. I am sometimes three 

 days making one cheese." 



Crops. 

 From the statements on crops are gathered the following facts : 



Indian Corn. John C. Clement of Kenduskeag, obtained the 

 first premium for corn grown on one acre of light gravelly loam ; 

 Indian corn was raised on the land the previous year : plowed twelve 

 inches deep and harrowed; applied, eight coids of compost and sowed 

 twelve quarts of eight-rowed corn in hills on the 15th of May ; culti- 

 vated and hoed three times, spreading upon the land three bushels 

 of ashes ; on the 28th of September, harvested one hundred and 

 twenty-five and one-half bushels of shelled corn and sixteen thou- 

 sand three hundred and thirty-three pounds of stalks ; cost of cul- 

 ture, $54. 



J. 0. Tilton of Kenduskeag, received the second premium on corn 

 grown on one acre of gravelly loam, free from stone; corn was 

 grown on the land the year before ; plowed twice in the spring be- 

 fore planting, about eight inches deep ; six cords of manure were 

 applied before plowing, and six cords of the same quality of manure 

 ■were put in the hill ; the corn was part eight and part twelve-rowed ; 

 the last is very early corn and much preferred ; on the 14th of May 

 planted; the ground was hoed three times and cultivated once; 

 ashes and plaster were applied, about ten bushels in the proportion 

 of one part plastiT to four parts of ashes ; the stalks were cut up 

 at the roots after the corn was harvested ; prefers this method to top 

 cutting; one hundred and ninety bushels of ears to the acre, and 

 about $12 worth of stalks; cost of culture, $59. 



Matthew Ritchie of East Corinth, obtained the third premium on 

 corn, grown on one acre of fine, light slaty soil of a dark color ; 



