SECRETARY'S RErORT. Q§ 



TKO-M S. W. COBUKN, BLOOMFIELD. 



" Tlic cultivation of corn is on the increase. It is the best crop 

 raised, to the extent of a fcirmer's ability. Sward ground, fall or 

 spring plowed, with manure in the hill and spread, plowed or harrowed 

 in, the quantity varying from five to ten cords each coat, that in the 

 hill being old, composted or in some way fermented, early planted, 

 say 15th to 25th of May, will usually bring a yield of fifty to seventy- 

 five bushels to the acre. As the quantity of manure is quite limited 

 Avith most farm management, so the limit to raising corn, and also the 

 temptation to try to raise more than the resources of soil and stimu- 

 lants will justify. I have seen more grjDwn on two acres, than on six 

 of similar soil, the same amount of manure being applied to each piece. 

 A desire to get over a large fixrm fast, by some hoed crop, to fit it for 

 new grass, is quite a temptation to most farmers to try to do too much 

 with corn. (Potatoes do not do as well for the soil as preparatory for 

 Avheat or grass.) Would it not be as well to halre the farms and: 

 double the manure ? On the whole, I deem the corn crop the most. 

 certain, the most valuable, not only in itself, but in its preparatorjr 

 effect for a valuable hay crop, of any crop raised, when carefully and. 

 intelligently managed." 



FHQjr CALEB HODSDOX, STAXDISH. 



" The cultivation of Indian corn is increasing. It yields aboutf thirty 

 bushels to the acre, as an average, and the yield is increasing, as the 

 people manure more, and farm better." 



FEOM E. SAMPSON, BOWDOHsTHAJr. 



" The cultivation of Indian corn is increasing. It is considered a 

 sure crop, with proper cultivation, and compares well with other crops, 

 with the exception of hay, which yields a greater profit. It yields forty- 

 five bushels to the acre ; and I think the average gradually increas- 

 ing." 



FROM JOHN S. MURCH, DATTOIsr. 



" The cultivation of Indian corn is thought to be on the increase. 

 On good soil, properly tended, it is considered as profitable as almost 

 any other crop ; but to extend it farther than this can be done, would 

 be folly. It is cheaper to raise forty, or fifty, or sixty bushels to the 

 acre, than fifteen or twenty." 



FEOM KEV. A. LINCOLN. 



" Indian corn is the principal cereal production of the town of Gray. 

 The average produce, twenty-nine bushels per acre." 

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