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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



6;070 lbs! Ss } ^'918 lbs. stover, at $6 per ton . . 

 184 bush, corn on cob (or 1 bush, corn, costing 27^ cents) 



$74 45 

 23 75 



$50 70 



[Statement of Benjamin P. Ware.] 



The land taken for my experiment with fertilizers this 

 year is the same acre that was used for my experiment last 

 year; this making the third year that it has been planted 

 with corn, and only chemical fertilizers used. To this land 

 I have added one-half an acre adjoining of the same qualiby 

 of land. Last year this half-acre was planted with corn and 

 pease on a fair dressing of barnyard-manure. The whole has 

 been planted and cultivated by the Ross system of imple- 

 ments, which require no hand-labor except once weeding, 

 and with that the field has been clean of weeds. By this 

 system the cost of cultivating is very much reduced. 



I divided the acre and one-half of land into four lots. On 

 lot No. 1 (which contained the same land as lot No. 1 in my 

 last year's experiment) I spread on broadcast, after plough- 

 ing, 658 pounds of Darling's animal fertilizer, which cost 

 $13.36, and 70 pounds sulphate of potash, costing $1.75, 

 making a total of $15.11. 



Lot No. 2 contained half an acre, and is the same as lot 

 No. 2 of last year's experiment. I spread on as above three 



