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J. N. Hinkley grew fifty-five bushels of ears of good corn, ten 

 l)usliels of soft, two and one-half bushels of beans and a cord of 

 pumpkins, on half an acre of moist yellowish loam ; had been in 

 grass for eight years ; seven cords of manure harrowed in, and a 

 half shovel full of fine old manure added to each hill. 



E. B. Hunt grew one hundred anil twenty-five bushels of ears 

 of Dutton corn on one acre and sixty rods of dry sandy ridge ; 

 plowed in fall and cross-plowed in spring; twenty-five loads of 

 green manure plowed in ; a shovel full of old manure in each hill ; 

 four loads of pumpkins and four bushels of beans also taken from 

 same lot. 



E,. W. Libby grew one hundred and twenty-five bushels of ears 

 of good corn per acre on a sandy loam ; plowed eight inches, turn- 

 ing in ten cords per acre of green manure and using six cords -of 

 compost of muck and yard manure in the hills, which were two feet 

 apart and the rows three and one-half feet apart ; left four stalks 

 in each hill ; cut up at the roots soon after becoming hard, which he 

 deems much the best way ; cost of crop, about $25 ; value, $60. 



R. W. Libby raised twenty bushels of rye per acre, on a yel- 

 lowish gaveily loam ; plowed in fall of 1855, and sown to oats and 

 peas in 1856 ; in fall plowed in the stubble and a very light dress- 

 ing of manure ; plowed deep as the plow would go, say nine to ten 

 inches, and sowed rye last of April ; cut it last August ; cost, $12 ; 

 value, $25. 



Timothy F. Perkins says of his rye crop: "The crop of rye 

 which I enter for premium, was raised on pumple stone land. It 

 was planted to potatoes last year, with a shovel full of muck in the 

 hill ; the muck was hauled out in June, and mixed with lime before 

 it was used. I sowed about the first of May, five pecks to the 

 acre, and raised sixteen bushels to the acre." 



R. S. York raised forty-three bushels, of thirty-five pounds each, 

 of oats per acre, on light soil, lying on a hard and gravelly subsoil ; 

 in grass last year ; plowed six inches deep ; four bushels seed sowed 

 May 10th; expense of crop, $8; value, at forty cents, $17.20. 



Statement of Gilbert Voter, Id. "The soil on which my 

 barley grew, is a red gravelly sandy loam ; coarse, and not very 



