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any substance whatever. About the 10th of June I planted 



forty rows of white beans beside the hills of corn. It was hoed 



about the 20th of June, and then again the first of July. This 



is all the after cultivation it has received. The soil on which 



this corn grew is of a yellow, gravelly loam, and when dried 



under the action of the sun, it is light and friable ; it is from 



eighteen inches to two feet deep to the subsoil or base, which 



is white, hard and gravelly, through which water does not pass. 



The rocks found on it are granite, a mixture of large and small 



ones. The top stalks were cut the 10th of August, just after 



the corn began to turn yellow. The amount of corn raised on 



this acre and a half of land was two hundred and thirty-two 



baskets full; one basketful shelled out made twenty quarts of 



corn; it weighed thirty-four pounds; the weight of the stalks 



was forty-eight hundred. 



Abraham Lord. 



Expenses : 1 man and yoke oxen 2 days plowing. ^ day har- 

 rowing — 2 men and 1 yoke oxen furrowing and dunging. 1 

 man 2 days planting. 2 men G days hoeing it twice. 2 men 

 2 days cutting stalks and binding and housing. 2 men six days 

 harvesting. 



Fryeburg, Oct. 14, 1856. 



I, franklin S. Hobbs, hereby certify, that I have raised the 

 present year three hundred and seventy-five bushel baskets full 

 of good sound Indian corn; and I have shelled said basket full 

 of ears, and it made over one-half bushel, making therefore one 

 hundred eighty-seven and a half bushels of shelled corn. The 

 ground has been measured by James Hobbs, Jr., and he certifies 

 that there is two and one-fourth acres — averaging eighty-three 

 and one-third bushels to the acre. 



Statement of the mannei' of raising, and expense of the above 

 corn. The ground was common upland, rocky, and rather hard 

 land, but of a strong, coarse soil ; about half of the piece was 

 planted last year with corn, on a green sward, well manured; 

 that part, this year, was manured in the hill with fine yard and 

 hoo: manure, beino; about a common shovel-full in a hill; the 

 other half was green sward, plowed this spring, and about 

 twenty cords of strong barn manure spread on to the furrows 

 and well harrowed in; it was planted about three and a half 



