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Many of the horses, sheep, oxen, &c.j seem to have been speci- 

 mens of great excellence. 



From Statements of Competitors on Crops. 



In^dian Corn, Joseph G. Swan grew eighty-five bushels of corn, 

 of sixty-four pounds each, on an acre of light sandy loam, broken 

 up the year before and planted to corn then ; this year plowed seven 

 inches; spread and harrowed in twenty loads stable manure worth 

 one dollar per load ; planted 19th May in hills three and one-half 

 feet apart ; hoed twice and applied two bushels of ashes and the same 

 quantity of plaster to the hills. 



|40 00 Profit, 



$75 00 



James "Walker grew sixty-six bushels ripe corn on an acre of 

 rather light loam, lying on a hard and gravelly subsoil, which was 

 planted to potatoes the year previous ; applied sixteen loads of green 

 manure from barn cellar, deemed worth two dollars per load ; planted 

 May 30th, the large kerneled eight-rowed corn, after soaking in 

 water from barn cellar and being rolled in plaster, in hills two feet 

 apart in the rows which were three and one-half feet apart ; culti- 

 vated and hoed once, hoed a second time without cultivating ; cut 

 up at roots when ripe, 28th September. 



Dr. Estimate— 



Plowing and harrowing, $3 00 



1-2 value of manure, 16 00 



Seed 50c, hoeing $4, 4 50 



Harvesting, 6 00 



$29 50 



$80 00 



