258 SAQADAHOC COUNTY SOCIETY. 



A. S. Perkins of Topsham, applied for premium on a crop of 

 bald wheat, grown on a dark clay loam, with a stony subsoil, where 

 potatoes were raised the previous year ; plowed ten inches deep and 

 applied ten cords of barn and slaughter-house manure to the acre ; 

 soaked the seed in beef brine and sowed broadcast two bushels ; 

 yield, twenty-three bushels per acre. 



Joseph Hall of Bowdoinham, applied for premium on crops grown 

 on one acre and sixty rods. 

 Expense : 



Plowing 10 inches deep, ^6 00 



60 loads of miinure, 60 00 



Working the land, 20 00 



Harvesting, 5 00 



$91 00 i Profit, $48 00 



The above was raised on old worn-out land which had been in 

 grass for many years. 



James F. Mustard raised corn at the rate of one hundred and 

 eighty-six bushels of ears per acre, on land which was in grass the 

 previous year; plowed in the fall ten inches deep, and applied twelve 

 cords of manure; hoed three times and added three bushels of 

 leached ashes the first of June ; cut up the stalks. 



C. Elagg of Topsham, obtained the first premium on corn ; grew 

 it on a dark colored sandy soil, free from stones; had not been 

 plowed previously for fifteen years ; plowed eight inches deep, and 

 sowed the corn in hills three feet apart each way ; the seed was 

 early Canada and King Philip, mixed together ; land was dressed 

 lightly with horse manure ; top stalks cut when the corn was just 

 past the milk ; cost of crop, $40 ; yield, seventy-five bushels. 



James D. Fisher of Bowdoinham, obtained the second premium 

 on corn grown on a gravelly loam with a stony subsoil ; the land 

 was planted to corn the previous year ; ten loads of barn-yard manure 

 were plowed in, and sixteen loads of manure applied afterwards; the 

 corn was of the King Philip variety, and planted in hills three and 

 a half feet between the rows and two and a half feet between the 



