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To. Alfred Cushman, for 80 bushels Indian corn on one acre. 



To Hiram F. Grant, for 29 bushels wheat on one acre. 



To Edmund Jay, for l9i bushels on one-half acre. 



To C. Carpenter, for 26 bushels on one acre. 



To Wm. Chase, Patten, for 184 bushels potatoes on one-half acre. 



Mr. M. L. Gerry of Golden Ridge, reports the following experi- 

 ment in wheat culture : 



" Having failed for years to grow any wheat on that part of my 

 land lying on Molunkus river, (owing to mildew and blight) and 

 learning tliat Mr. Cary of Houlton succeeded by very early sowing, 

 I sowed white-bald (spring) wheat on the 11th November — having 

 ploughed and harrowed, after taking off a crop of corn. As soon as 

 the snow was oif in spring the wheat was up green and flourishing, 

 except on a part where the snow did not lie through the whole win- 

 ter, and were it not for this. I think there would have been at the 

 rate of 30 to 35 bushels to the acre. As it was, it yielded at the 

 rate of 25 bushels, and of as plump and handsome grain as I ever 

 saw. The land was not highly manured ; the original growth chiefly 

 spruce and fir." 



