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eight quarts of King Philip, and seventeen quarts of a seed I obtained 

 from Milton, N. H., many years ago. The corn ^vas dropped by my 

 own band, four seeds to the hill, and occasionally a pumpkin seed. 

 Eleven quarts of pea beans were planted, and three seeds to the hill. 

 Cultivated four times in each row. The first hoeing was done by 

 clearing out the weeds, without drawing any mould about the hill ; 

 second hoeing after the cultivator was to make a very small mould. 

 I would remark that the crows took up about the fifteenth of June, 

 two hundred hills, which were afterwards planted to potatoes. The 

 field planted contains two acres ninety-eight rods. The corn har- 

 vested Oct. 14th to 20th, and amounted to two hundred and seventy- 

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

 twenty bushels of pea beans, and seven cart loads of fifty bushels each, 

 equal to seven tons of pumpkins. The pressure of labor in getting 

 my salt hay, prevented my cutting up the corn or stalks until after 

 the corn was harvested, therefore the stalks were reduced in value. 

 The amount of stalks we estimate at six tons. The Milton corn is 

 eight rowed, and resembles the King Philip corn, but it yielded 

 twenty-five per cent, more than the Philip corn, soil, manuring and 

 cultivation all the same. 



THE CROP. 



117 bushels of corn, at S1,00, . . .• $117 00 



20 do. beans, at $2,00, . . . 40 00 



7 tons of pumpkins, at $5,00, . . . 35 00 



6 do of stalks, at .$5, 00, . . . 30 00 



$222 00 



Expenses of cultivation and harvesting. 

 2 men three days, 4 oxen three days plowing, 

 2 men three days, 4 oxen three days carting on manure, 

 2 men two days, 2 pair oxen 1 1-2 days spreading and 

 harrowing in manure, 

 Man. boy and horse furrowing 1 day, 



2 men three days, 2 pair oxen three days, dropping 



manure in the hill, 

 10 days men planting, 



3 days boy dropping beans, 

 Man, boy and horse 2 days at holeing, . 



