72 YORK SOCIETY. 



IIONEY. 



Mr. T. p. S. Dcering, Biddeford, uses Miner's cross-bar hive ; 

 takes the honey away in supers from the top of tlie hive ; pro- 

 duced five hundred and ten pounds in eleven hives the past 

 season — one yielding- seventy-nine pounds after June 20th, 



Corn, &c. 

 Joseph Frost of Elliot, applied for premium on a crop of corn 

 of one hundred and fifty-two bushels of ears of sound corn, and 

 twelve bushels inferior, grown on one hundred and ninety-two 

 rods of land which was in grass two years before, and last year 

 planted with corn, when about fifteen loads of stable manure 

 was spread and plowed in eight inclics ; also spread ten loads 

 compost on surface, harrowed thoroughly, and a gill of ashes 

 and plaster added in the hills. This year plowed as deep as 

 the plow would go, turning up the old sod and manure — spread 

 fifteen loads compost and stable manure to the acre; hills three 

 feet and rows three feet asunder, four seeds to each hill, the 

 variety long planted here, and resembles the brown corn, but 

 earlier. Cultivated twice, passing it four times through each 

 row, and hoed twice. Was cut up and shocked September 29tli 

 and 30th, the grain being nearly all glazed over, stalks very 

 green, but became well made, and good fodder, worth double 

 what it would be with the tops taken off. For the last twenty 

 years has cut it up at the ground, deeming it greatly prefera- 

 ble, and the unripe grain ripens much better also. The stalks, 

 four tons, he considers worth $8 per ton. In shocking it, lie 

 puts a stake in the ground, sets the corn loosely around it, tics 

 at top, and puts on a cap. 



Estimated expense -on the Crop. 



Plowing one day, two men and four oxen, . . §4 00 



Seventeen loads manure, $34; half to future crop, . 17 00 

 Two men, one pair oxen one and one-half day carting 



manure, . . . . . . 5 25 



One man one-half day spreading manure, . . 50 



Man and oxen one-half day harrowing, ^ ^ 1 



