X72 SOUTH KENNEBEC SOCIETY. 



by measure when well dried, on the 2Tth day of Xovember, 

 A. D. IS-IG. 



Tlie soil was of a sandy and gravelly upland, inclined to the 

 South. Cultivated last year with corn and potatoes, with a 

 small quantity of manure in the hill. Previously, for some eight 

 years, mowed without any dressing. Plowed in the fall, and 

 also in the spring, about six inches deep. Spread about five 

 and one half cords of green barn manure before plowing. Put 

 on about four and one-half cords of muck and old manure, about 

 one-third of which was muck. Seed, King Philip corn, and from 

 five to six kernels in the hill. The manure was covered to the 

 depth of about one inch before the corn was dropped. Planted 

 May 23d, and covered about two inches in depth. Before the 

 first hoeing put on about six bushels of unleached ashes. I 

 went through the rows one wa}' with a cultivator, and the hills 

 slightly elevated about the 15th of June. Second hoeing about 

 the fourth of July. The rows about three and one-half feet, 

 the hills about three feet apart. The rows run north and south. 

 Topped the stalks about the 20th of September. Harvested 

 about the 20th of October, and it was immediately husked and 

 put into the crib. 



I also raised on same ground four and one-half bushels beans, 

 and one load of pumpkins. Our work was principally per- 

 formed with oxen and men. Ox work, in days, three and one- 

 half. Horse labor, one day. Some boys' labor. The amount 

 of labor I compute at eighteen days. 



Statement of A. ^ W. True. We hereby certify that from 

 one acre of ground, we this season have raised eighty bushels 

 of corn, ascertained by weight when well dried, which was done 

 on the 24th of Xovember. The soil was a dark rocky loam — 

 upland — slightly inclined to the east. For twelve years prev- 

 ious to last spring, was cropped with grass without top dress- 

 ing. In the spring of 1855, 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 



