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Riita Bagas. John W. Djer, of New Sharon, 230 bushels on 

 quarter acre, and 175 bushels on another quarter acre, — good crops 

 for so very drj a season. His statement on the first lot is as follo^YS : 



" My crop, consisting of 230 bushels of 60 lbs. to the bushel, was 

 grown on one-fourth an acre, being at the rate of 920 bushels to the 

 acre. The soil upon which it grew was a moist, stony, rather coarse 

 and gravelly soil, inclining to red or brown, and rather stiff. It is 

 about 15 inches to a hard sub-soil ; was seeded to grass in 1854, 

 and the amount cut per acre was never more than three-fourths of a 

 ton. It was in the poorest condition for a crop of any land on my 

 farm that had been cultivated with hoed crops. It was ploughed 

 14 acres in the month of October, 1859, about 9 inches deep, and 

 on the last of April, 1860, there was carted on to the IJ acres about 

 eight cords strawy manure from the sheepfold, and cultivated in 

 with the ox cultivator. One acre was planted to corn, and one- 

 fourth an acre to turnips. 



Before planting the turnips, we carted on one cord more from the 

 sheepfold, making in all about three cords upon the quarter of an 

 acre. It was then cultivated with the ox cultivator, harrowed, fur- 

 rowed 2| feet apart, manured in the hill with fine barnyard manure 

 into which had been incorporated about 10 bushels of turkey ma- 

 nure, 3 bushels of ashes, 2 of mild lime, and 1 of salt, about 1| cords 

 in all. The hills three feet apart, with two or three turnips in each 

 hill. Planted 10th of June. Hoed once before haying, and the 

 weeds cut up after haying. Harvested October 27th." 



The Secretary writes that crops of all kinds, except hay, have 

 been unusually good, but that farmers have been very negligent in 

 reporting their crops and applying for premiums. 



