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mixture of plaster, lime and ashes; cultivated twice before hoeing 

 the first time ; hoed the second time, adding a small handful of lime, 

 ashes and plaster in each hill ; cut up at the roots and shocked it 

 about the middle of October. Thinks it much better to cut up at 

 the roots as the corn is much riper and harder, while too, the fodder 

 is much better. Raised also on the same acre, twentj-six shocks of 

 white beans. 



F. S. Mitchell of Greene, raised one hundred and forty bushels 

 of ears of corn on a fine light loam about two and one-half feet 

 deep, of a dark color ; the land was previously in grass ; plowed 

 ten inches deep and spread broadcast fifty loads of thirty bushels 

 each ; planted on the 20th of May, the rows three and one-half feet 

 apart and the hills three feet apart; cultivated and hoed twice; top 

 stalks cut when the corn was glazed. 



Wm. Skelton raised one hundred baskets of five pecks each of 

 sound Dutton corn, on a dark strong soil which was in grass for 

 forty years ; was never plowed before ; plowed ten inches deep and 

 harrowed, and spread three cords of barn-yard and stable manure, 

 and three cords in the hill ; planted the seed, which had been wet 

 and rolled in plaster, on the 31st of May, in hills four feet each 

 way ; applied ashes as a top dressing ; cut up at the roots and 

 shocked it on the middle of September. Also, seven bushels of 

 beans on the same acre. 



Samuel Chadbourne of Greene, raised two hundred bushels of 

 potatoes on a stony loam ; in oats the previous year ; plowed eight 

 inches deep, and applied five and one-half cords of manure ; cost of 

 crop, twenty-two days' work. 



Tristram Hill raised one hundred and eighty-eight bushels of 

 sixty pounds each of long red potatoes, 6a a yellow loam, somewhat 

 stony; in grass last year; plowed nine inches deep, and added six 

 cords of stable m.anurc ; the seed was sprinkled with slacked lime, 

 and a small handful was placed in each hill ; cultivated and hoed 

 once ; sowed twelve bushels of seed on the iOth of May, and dug 

 on the 18th of September. 



F. S. Mitchell raised one hundred and fifteen bushels of long red 

 and pink-eye potatoes mixed, on a light loam of a dark color, with 

 a gravelly subsoil; the land was in pasture previously; plowed 



