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MAINE STATE SOCIETY. 



Of the above, fifty-six rods in potatoes last year, yielded 

 forty-five busliels ; and one hundred and four square rods of 

 green sward yielded fifty-seven bushels, in all one hundred and 

 two bushels, after allowing an eighth for shrinkage. 



Statement of A. and W. True, Litchfield. "We, A. and "W. 

 Ti'ue, hereby certify, that from one acre of ground we this 

 season have raised eighty (80) busliels of corn, ascertained by 

 weight, when well dried, which was done on the 24th of Novem- 

 ber. The soil was a dark, rocky loam, upland, slightly inclined 

 to the east. For twelve years previous to last spring it was 

 cropped with grass without top dressing. In the spring of 1 855 

 it was turned up and planted to potatoes, after light dressing in 

 the hole. On the 19th of last May we plowed it once to the 

 depth of six or seven inches, then harrowed and cross harrowed 

 with an ox harrow. We then furrowed it one way with a light 

 plow and horse, and cross marked east and west with chains, 

 making the rows three feet each way. Six cords of long stable 

 manure were spread on and turned under with the plow; three 

 cords of old barn manure were put in the hole. We used for 

 seed the " Large Button Corn," from five to seven kernels to a 

 hill. The manure in the hole was first covered to the depth 

 of an inch. May 22d, we planted the corn, covering to the 

 depth of two inches. When the corn first broke the ground we 

 put on eight bushels of ashes mixed with a small quantity of 

 lime. We went through the rows each way with a cultivator, 

 and made slight hills with the hoe, on the 10th of June ; went 

 through the same process again June 2Gth; it received no other 

 cultivation except pulling a few weeds in August. Topped the 

 stalks September 13th; harvested about the 15th October; it 

 was immediately husked and put in the crib. Our work was 

 principally performed with oxen and men ; ox work in days, six ; 

 horse work two days ; we had a boy four days ; the manual 

 labor we compute at twenty days' work. 



George W. Freeman of West Bridgton, entered for premium 

 on crop of corn of one hundred and forty bushels ears on one 

 hundred and fifty square rods of dark colored loamy land ; ,soil 

 eighteen inches deep, and lying on a hard, gravelly subsoil ; in 

 grass the previous year; plowed eight inches deep 10th May, 

 1856, and spread ten loads green manure, and put eight loads 



