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vember, ten inches deep; manure (kind and quantity not given) 

 spread and in hill ; cultivated and hoed twice. 

 Received first premium. 



By the statement of L. H. Winslow, who got third premium on 

 corn, it would appear that he grew on an acre and a half of "sandy 

 gravel," of light color, in grass last year, plowed ten inches deep 

 and manured with sixteen loads green manure, harrowed in, and 

 twenty-nine loads of rotted manure, put in the hills, which were 

 four feet apart, and had each a spoonful of dry ashes besides, and 

 were hoed twice, "two hundred and sixty- two baskets of corn, thir- 

 teen bushels of pea-beans, and eighteen cart-loads of pumpkins." 



{Qiierc. How much shelled corn was grown per acre ?) 



Levi Vaughan obtained fourth premium on one hundred and fifty- 

 six bushels of ears of corn, from an acre, grown on a sandy loam, 

 with a gravelly subsoil ; greensward broken in November last, eight 

 to ten inches deep ; ten loads green manure harrowed in, and six 

 loads of yard manure in the hills. Cultivated and hoed twice. 



Mr. Viles^ statements on g?-am and roots are as follows : 



" I enter a sample of carrots from one-sixteenth of an acre, for pre- 

 mium. Yielded at the rate of fifteen hundred bughels to the acre. 

 The ground has been planted to carrots for the last six years ; last 

 year yielded to the acre at the rate of sixteen hundred bushels. 



(Obtained first premium.) 



Also, a sample of oats, of one bushel, raised on one-half acre of 

 ground, and from three pecks sowing ; yielded twenty-five bushels, 

 that weighed thirty-five pounds to the bushel; raised qn ground that 

 was broke up and planted with corn last year ; manured in the hill, 

 and not any manure this year. ^ 



(Obtained Second premium.) 



Also, a sample of one bushel wheat raised from one and one-half 

 bushel sowing on one acre of land, and yielded twenty bushels, from 

 ground that was broke up last year and planted with corn ; manured 

 in the hill ; and not any manure this year ; the ground was seeded 

 down to grass this year." 



(Obtained first premium.) 



John Yiles. 



