YORK SOCIETY. 73 



Three mcQ and boy one and one-half day planting, 

 Seed corn, ..... 

 Cultivating, man, boy and horse one day, 

 Twelve days, men hoeing, 

 Harvesting corn-stalks and beans, 



$5 25 

 37 



2 00 

 12 00 

 12 00 



$59 37 



Crop. 

 One hundred and fifty-two bushels ears sound corn, or 



seventy-six bushels shelled corn, at 84 cents, . $63 84 



Three tons stalks, $8, . . . . 24 00 



Two bushels beans, . . . . . 4 00 



$91 84? 



Statement of Saimiel Millekin, Saco, on green corn fodder. 

 " I offer for premium, the product of forty-two rods of green 

 corn fodder, planted about the middle of Juno, in rows three 

 feet apart ; strewed the seed in a line varying from one to two 

 inches ; planted on clayey loam, about one-half of which had been 

 manured for carrots the tv/o previous years, with green barn 

 manure, about six cords to the acre, each year. Planted this 

 year without any kind of dressing; it grew beyond any thing I 

 ever saw. We weighed, when green, a bundle that grew on an 

 average rovr, fourteen feet in length, which weighed ninety-three 

 pounds; length of stalk from eight to eleven feet. The other 

 half was planted on green sward, with about the same amount 

 of barn manure spread and plowed in nine inches deep. Put 

 into the furrow, a small quantity of old rotted manure, well 

 mixed with sea sand. The crop is without precedent in my 

 neighborhood. I commenced cutting for the milch cows the 

 middle of August, and fed them with it every morning for about 

 six weeks, which caused them to give a third more milk." 



Edmund P.Dennett of Saco, a successful market gardener, in 

 his statement of mixed crops a'nd samples shown, says that he 

 uses the double mouldboard plow^, and runs it fifteen inches 

 deep ; his soil a light fine loose sand with some dark sand or 

 loam; uses compost manure, costing about $2 per cord; ten to 

 twenty cords per acre, for cabbages, tomatoes, cucumbers, car- 

 rots, squashes, &c, ; for turnips, prefers it as a top dressing 



