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A. & W. True of Litchfield, received fourth premium on ninety 

 bushels of King Philip corn, grown on an acre of yellowish loam, 

 rather hard and stiff, resting on an impervious subsoil at a depth of 

 two and one-half feet; in corn in 1855, with light manuriHg; in 

 1856 in wheat, with no dressing. Plowed eight inches deep and 

 harrowed ; applied eight cords barn manure and two cords bog ma- 

 nure ; planted 23d May, in bills three feet apart, rows three and 

 one-half feet ; cultivated and hoed twice ; after the first hoeing, ap- 

 plied eight bushels ashes and lime. Stalks topped September 15th ; 

 crop harvested October 10th. 



Estimate : Plowing and harrowing, 



10 cords manure, and applying the same, 

 Cultivating and hoeing. 

 Cutting stalks and harvesting. 

 Top dressing and planting, 



Value of crop, .... 



Stalks, &c., not weighed. 



Elbridge C. Crane, (lad under sixteen years of age,) obtained 

 first premium on crop of corn on one-eighth of an acre. The land 

 had been in grass four or five years ; plowed the fall previous ; har- 

 rowed in spring, two-thirds of a cord of hog manure applied and a 

 bushel of ashes around the hills. Cultivated and hoed twice. Cut 

 up at the roots before fully ripe ; thinks in this way the corn is 

 equally good and the fodder better. Crop, twenty-three bushels of 

 ears weighing forty-two pounds per bushel, (at the rate of one hun- 

 dred and eighty -four bushels of ears per acre.) 



Statement of Samuel Gray of Harrison. "I have raised on 

 three-fourths of one acre of ground, eighteen and one-fourth bushels 

 'of winter wheat, as per certificate of George Pierce and Brackett 

 Woodsum. 



The soil where the above wheat was grown, is a sandy loam, fine 

 and light. A small part is clay loam. The subsoil under the sandy 

 loam, is coarsish and rather loose sand. The clay loam is about 

 fifteen inches deep. Soil is of dark chocolate color. Rocks, gran- 

 ite — rather free from stone. The land was manured lightly and 



