, PISCATAQUIS COUNTY SOCIETY. 147' 



Barley. Charles Loring, first premium for 55 bushels on one 

 acre. 



Potatoes. First premium to C. B. Goodell, 256 bushels on one 

 acre. 



Riita Bagas. Andrew J. Chase, for 195 bushels on one-fourth' 

 of an acre. 



Mr. Hammond's statement of mixed crop, grown upon worn out 

 land, is as follows : 



"My crop consisting of 180| bushels of ears, 38 pounds to the 

 bushel, was grown on one acre twelve rods, being at the rate ot 

 1671 bushels of ears to the acre ; also, about 3 common cartloads 

 pumpkins, and 4^ bushels beans. The soil upon which they grew 

 was a gravelly loam, of yellowish color ; formerly quite rocky ; 

 mostly cleared oif; dry and light; not hard to work when free 

 from stone. Before plowing cut from 600 to 800 lbs. per acre, hay. 

 Broke up May, 1859, eight inches deep, turning about six cords 

 quite strawy barn manure ; harrowed well ; furrowed north and 

 south about three and a half feet apart ; hills about three feet apart ; 

 manui'ed in the hill, with old barn manure and dirt from under the 

 stable ; used 200 pounds bone-dust on one-fourth of the piece — hall 

 in the hill and half in top dressing; sprinkled each hill after drop- 

 ping the corn with a compost of salt, lime and plaster — 300 pounds 

 quick-lime, slacked with 100 pounds salt dissolved in water (slaked 

 dry,) one-third part plaster added, (by measure,) used about a gill 

 to six hills ; top dressed with hen manure, salt and plaster, com- 

 posted — four bushels hen manure, one salt, two plaster — put around 

 the hill (not on, it.) Plowed between rows once, and cultivated 

 once ; hoed twice ; five kernels to the hill — eight rowed mostly. 

 Planted about the 20th of May ; cut up and shocked about the 20th 

 of September. I had also about 10 bushels potatoes from the same 

 ground. I weighed one bushel, measured the remainder, and judge 

 from a calculation based upon such measurement of ears, that there 

 will be 60 bushels of sound corn and about 5 bushels soft. I kept 

 no minutes, have made no exact measurement, except the land, 

 and but for the fact that I considered it a good crop for ivorn out 

 or exhausted land, with the small quantify of barn manure I was 

 able to apply, and that I relied in a great measure upon the artifi- 

 cial manures, or composts, as above specified, I should not have 

 entered or made any statements of it." 



