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dark colored loamy soil, on gravelly subsoil ; planted to. corn 

 last year; cultivation not high; sowed in April, harvested in 

 August. 



James Walker of Fryeburg, entered for premium on corn, 

 one hundred and two bushels sound, six of soft, and a cart load 

 of pumpkins, on an acre. Statement as made to State Society, 

 (See page 39.) 



Joseph G. Swan raised ninety-two and a half bushels 'twelve 

 rowed corn, and eight bushels beans, on an acre of yellow, loamy 

 land ; planted to potatoes the previous year ; this year applied 

 eight and one-third cords stable manure worth $25 ; rows and 

 hills three and a half feet asunder; beans planted between corn ; 

 planted May 17th, beans after the corn was up; plastered be- 

 fore hoeing, cost fifty cents ; thinks it cheaper to cut at roots, 

 and better to cut the tops. 



Expenses; manure, $25 00 



Plowing, 2 00 



Harrowing, 1 00 



Planting with corn planter, 1 00 



Hoeing, ' 10 00 



Harvesting, . 12 00 



Plaster, 50 



$51 50 And the crop worth $116 



Mr. Abraham Lord's statement on corn. This land was 

 mowed for a number of years, and then it was pastured until 

 1855; in 1854 I pulled out pine stumps enough to make thirty 

 rods offence, then in 1855 I hauled on eighteen cords of long 

 manure, and spread it on to the grass ground ; then plowed nine 

 inches deep; then harrowed and planted it with corn. This is 

 merely a simple statement of the condition the land was in for 

 the present year, 1856. I hauled on to the acre and a half nine 

 cords of long manure, spread and plowed it eight inches deep; 

 then harrowed and furrowed it; then put into the hills about 

 three cords of compost manure made of muck and hog droppings. 

 The rows were three and a half feet apart, and the hills three. 

 It took about nine quarts of the large twelve rowed corn like 

 the sample of the crop herewith presented. I finished planting 

 it the 29th day of May. It was neither rolled nor soaked in 



