WEST PENOBSCOT AG. SOCIETY. 



This Society paid out in PREiiiUMS in 185G: 



On live stock, . . . . $120 50 



Fruit, . . . . . 16 40 



Crops, . . . . 40 20 



Manufactures, . . . . 32 10 



$209 20 



Crops. 



There was a rery commendable competition among the farm- 

 ers of this society, far the premiums under this division, and 

 some very fair crops, particularly of corn. There were no less 

 than twenty-two entries in this division. This shows a zeal 

 worthy of all praise, and contrasts strongly with some other 

 societies, where there were but two or three entries. It is to 

 be regretted that there are not more statements of interest- 

 ing details to present here. 



Sylvester Eddy applied for a premium on a half acre of Indian 

 corn. It was planted on a gravelly and slaty loam, light and 

 friable. The soil is about eighteen inches deep, of a light 

 color, and underlaid witli a hard, gravelly subsoil. It was 

 broken up the June before the planting and sowed to oats with- 

 out manure. The May following the oat stubble was plowed 

 in from eight inches to a foot deep, after spreading on four 

 cords of green manure. It was planted in rows three and one- 

 half feet apart, and in hills two and one-half feet apart, and 

 applied in the hill two cords of well rotted compost made of 

 hog manure and swamp muck. It was planted the 20th day of 

 May, and cultivated and hoed twice during the season, and har» 



