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butter. We don't know that we have made any new discoveries in 

 regard to preservation ; we always keep ours in a dry cool place 

 and exclude the air entirely from it by putting a bag of fine salt 

 over the jar. We sometimes feed roots to our cows ; find it to in- 

 crease the quantity, but deteriorates the quality, we think." 



Mrs. Avis Warren. 



Crops, 



Indian Corn. The statement of the competitor who obtained the 

 first premium did not come to hand, or has been mislaid. 



Clark Drummond, of Winslow, obtained second premium on 

 his crop of one-hundred and seventy-four bushels of ears, (shelled 

 eighty-seven bushels,) grown on an acre of dark yellow, sandy 

 loam, overlying a fine sand sub-soil. The soil contains limestone 

 and slatestones ; last year it produced eighty-five bushels of shelled 

 corn ; plowed eight inches, and cultivated thoroughly ; ujed seven 

 cords compost, seven-eighths swamp muck put in the hog-pen the 

 year before, in the hills ; planted 18th of May ; seed, the Button 

 corn soaked twenty-four hours in warm water, and rolled in 

 plaster ; hills three and one-half feet apart ; used horse-hoe twice 

 between the rows, and hand-hoed twice. 



B. W. Burbank obtained third premium on crop of one-hun- 

 dred and sixty-three bushels of ears per acre, of eight and twelve 

 rowed corn ; thinks it better to mix the two than to plant separate, 

 and deems it very important to hoe well the second time ; soil sandy 

 overlying a clay sub-soil, he says : 



"I planted one acre and seventy-three rods of land to corn, and 

 harvested two-hundred and thirty-eight bushels of ears. It was 

 pasture land; plowed in September, (1855,) and sowed to winter 

 wheat. It winter killed badly, and a small crop was realized in 

 1856. In May, 1857, a light dressing of coarse manure was spread 

 on the stubble, then plowed with two horses, about six inches deep, 

 then harrowed and furrowed out. The twelve first rows were 

 manured with hog manure in the hill. Then came a compost of 

 bog muck and slaughter-house manure, in the hill ; two parts muck 

 and one part slaughter-house manure, mixed well together. The hog 

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