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hills ; harvested by cutting at the root immediatelj after the corn 

 ■was glazed ; think this is a saving of labor and fodder ; one hundred 

 and thirteen bushels of cars, forty-three pounds per bushel ; five tons 

 of fodder. 



John CliiTord of West Bath, obtained the third premium on one 

 hundred and twenty-eight bushels of ears grown on one acre of 

 yellow gravelly soil, on a hard gravelly subsoil ; the land was in 

 grass last year ; plowed ten inches deep, and manured with ten cords 

 of compost made of muck, rockweed and barnyard manure ; the rows 

 were four feet, and the hills three feet apart; hoed twice, and dressed 

 with half a pint of ashes to the hill. 



Daniel Edgcomb of Lisbon, obtained the fourth premium on a 

 crop of " improved Canada corn" grown on a light sandy loam ; was 

 in corn last year, and was manured with twenty loads of thirty-five 

 bushels each, spread broadcast ; plowed ten inches in depth ; spread, 

 this year, twenty loads more and plowed in ; the seed was soaked in 

 copperas water and dried in plaster ; planted on the 22d of May . 

 cut up at the roots ; prefers this manner of harvesting ; one hundred 

 and thirty-six and a half bushels of ears per acre; cost of crop, 



William Alexander obtained the first premium on a crop of rye, 

 grown on half an acre of land where wheat and potatoes were raised 

 the previous year ; manure was then applied, composed of stable 

 manure and seaweed ; no manure added the present year ; yield at 

 the rate of thirty bushels per acre. 



B. M. and E. W. Brown of West Bath, obtained premium on a 

 heap of compost made of four tons of worthless straw and hay, useful 

 for no other purpose, several loads of chalf and other waste sub- 

 stances, worthless except for compost, two cords of rockweed ; it was 

 saturated with a lye made as follows: ten bushels of hen manure 

 and night soil, with the water from the barn, and six bushels of dry 

 ashes. "It gives," say they, "fourteen loads of manure, worth 

 $2 a load, while the expense was $13.13 — thus giving $14.87 as 

 the price of the hay, &c., which, except the rockweed, could not have 

 been used for anything else. We will here state that we have no 

 crops grown so well as those on this compost. Most of these 

 materials were dry twenty-five days before. We think great ad- 



