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liberal application of manure, -with a proper and seasonable cultiva- 

 tion of the soil. 



Mr. Joseph Frost of Eliot, harvested two hundred and seventy- 

 eight bushels of ears of sound corn, and fifteen bushels of small corn, 

 from two acres planting, on gravelly loam, being a yield of one hun- 

 dred and forty-six and one-half bushels of ears to the acre, and to 

 him we award the first premium. 



Mr. Frederic Beach of Saco, harvested two hundred and thirty- 

 five bushels of ears from two acres planting, on pine plains, being 

 one hundred seventeen and one-half bushels of ears to the acre, and 

 to him we award the second premium. • 



For the Committee, 



Ira C. Doe. 



Statement of Mr. Frost. 



Eliot, Nov. 10, 185T. 

 To the Committee of the York County Agricultural Society on 



crops : 



The undersigned respectfully submits the following statement of 

 a field of corn, with a mixture of beans and pumpkins. 



My mode of cultivating corn has been changeable for the past five 

 years, by spreading the manure, plowing it in under the sod, then 

 spreading on the surface and harrowing thoroughly ; plowing, spread- 

 ing on the surface and harrowing thoroughly and applying plaster 

 or ashes to the hill, and my average yield has been fifty bushels of 

 corn, and a fair crop of beans and pumpkins to the acre. 



The field entered for premium the present year, has a gradual 

 slope to the road. The soil is a gravelly loam, and about half of 

 the lot was planted to corn the past year, and the remainder was 

 in grass, and we harvested a light crop of hay. The land wag 

 plowed from the fifteenth to the twentieth of May, and thirty-eight 

 loads of long and compost manure carted on, spread, and thoroughly 

 harrowed, then furrowed with a two winged plow. Three feet dis- 

 tance between rows, and twenty-four loads of compost manure, made 

 by hogs, dropped three feet between hills. We began planting May 

 twenty-sixth, and finished the twenty-eighth. The seed planted was 



