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and planted with corn and potatoes. This year, spread and plowed 

 in twelve loads of new manure ; sowed 27th of Maj two bushels of 

 seed per acre, broadcast ; cut 15th of August ; damaged by lodging, 

 "perhaps a third" — and he remarks, that barley has yielded less in 

 his neighborhood the present year than usual. 



He also grew sixty bushels of oats on an acre of high intervale 

 soil, broken up a year before and planted with corn, applying twenty- 

 five loads of manure. Plowed this year ten inches deep, and har- 

 rowed well — applying no manure; sowed 12th of May, three and a 

 half bushels of seed ; cut August 22d, when rather more than half 

 turned. The crop was somewhat injured by being lodged. 



