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MAINE STATE SOCIETY. 



Pliilo Clark of Turner, entered a crop of wheat grown on 

 one acre, a fine, light and friable soil, reddish yellow, with a 

 subsoil which -is sandy for two feet below the surface. The pre- 

 vious cultivation was grass, and a crop of corn last year. Last 

 fall plowed deep, this spring it was harrowed before the seed 

 was sown. On the 30th of April sowed broadcast with the 

 wheat two hundred pounds guano at a cost of $6.67. The 

 wheat was of a kind called '* Oregon." The seed was washed 

 and afterwards rolled in four quarts of quicklime dry slaked. 

 Two bushels sown per acre. On the 17th of August, as soon 

 as the wheat was out of the milk, harvested nineteen five-eighths 

 bushels to the acre. 



Cost. i Yalue. 



$2 00 Nineteen and five-eighths 

 2 50 bushels wheat at 



Plowing, 

 Harrowing, 

 Manure, 

 Harvesting, 



6 67 

 3 00 



$14 17 



$2.25,* 

 Deduct 



Profit, 



$41 15 

 14 17 



$29 98 



Indian Corn. 

 George P. Hooper of Paris, enters for premium a crop of 

 King Philip corn, grown on a light, friable, loamy soil, of a light 

 brown color, with a hard, gravelly subsoil, impervious to water. 

 In 1855, potatoes were planted with a very light dressing of 

 stable manure in the hill, on a newly^ broken sod. The present 

 year the ground was broken to the depth of eight inches, and 

 harrowed lightly. Applied two-thirds of a common barn shovel 

 full of manure from the hog-pen to the hill, worth in all about 

 $8. On the 20th of May planted, dry, five grains in each hill } 

 hills three feet apart ; rows three and a half feet apart. Hoed 

 twice at a cost of $3.87^ ; and on October 4th harvested (stalks 

 being cut ofl" previously,) seventy-nine bushels of ears on half 

 an acre. A bushel of ears of corn weighed fifty-one and a half 

 pounds ; and a bushel of ears shelled made twenty-four quarts, 

 and weighed forty pounds. Stalks were fed in the field and not 

 weighed. The tops made an ox-cart load. 



*lt will bring $3 por bftsliel for seed. 



