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1. 3 cords green manure from the barn cellar, spead and ploughed 

 in eight inches deep — crop, 32 bushels of ears. 2. 3 cords, and 

 ploughed in four inches deep — crop, 33 bushels of ears. 3. 8 cords 

 harrowed in — crop, 34 bushels of ears. 4. 3 cords spread on the 

 surface — crop, 36 bushels of ears. Manured in the hill with 

 manure scraped up in the yard — 7 cords. 



Oats. Applications for premiums on oats were made by Nelson 

 Haskell of Poland, for crop of 60 bushels per acre, and by T. J. 

 Twycross, Dresden, for crop of 56| bushels per acre. 



Root Crops. 



First Premium on potatoes to Andrew W. Russell of Rowland. 

 His statement is as follows : 



"My crop consisting of 358 bushels of 61. pounds to the bushel, 

 was grown on one acre, being at the rate 364 bushels (60 lbs) to the 

 acre. The soil upon which it grew is alluvial or intervale, princi- 

 pally vegetable deposit or mould of a dark color, with a slight por- 

 tion of clay, but very light and easy of cultivation when dry. No 

 stone, gravel or coarse sand in the soil until a depth of from 6 to 10 

 feet is reached, when the original bottom of the Piscataquis river 

 is found, upon the north bank of which is the field referred to. 

 This land was originally covered with a heavy growth of maple, 

 birch, elm, oak and basswood. Cleared more than forty years ago. 

 Since which it has usually been in grass, yielding heavy crops, but 

 occasionally being ploughed and cultivated with very little or no 

 manure. The crops heretofore cultivated have been wheat, oats, 

 potatoes, etc., always yielding good crops. This acre was broken 

 up from grass, the sod being turned in 8 inchos deep, in October. 

 1859. In April and the very first days of May last, there were 

 25 common cart loads of unrotted barn yard manure spread on the 

 acre, and worked into the surface with cultivator and harrow. Then 

 planted 18 inches apart in rows, just o\ feet apart in furrows 4 

 inches deep. Covered with the hand hoe. Iloed twice after the 

 cultivator, and such large weeds as appeared afterwards were pulled 

 out by hand. The crop was harvested in the common niatiner with 

 hand hoes, between the 18th and 25th of September. The kind of 

 seed uged was the Orono and State of Maine. It was cut small, 

 never more than two eyes on a piece, and dropped two pieces in a 

 place. There was not more than 10 or 12 missing hills on the piece. 

 This land is upon the farm of William C. Hammatt. 



