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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



INDIAN CORN. 



WORCESTER SOUTH-EAST. 



[Statement of J. D. Hunt.] 



My crop was raised on 138| square rods of land. 



The crop in 1876 was hay, with no manure applied on the 

 land. 



It bore a crop of corn in 1877 : three cords and a half of 

 cow-manure were applied. 



The soil is a black loam, with clay or hard bottom. Two 

 cords of cow-manure were spread on the land in spring, pre- 

 vious to ploughing, — the first time May 5, the second time 

 May 16. The land was ploughed about six inches deep, then 

 furrowed both ways three feet, four inches wide, and about 

 six inches deep ; manured in the hill with two cords cow- 

 manure from the barn-cellars, and worked over once beside 

 carting, and making four cords of manure on the piece of 

 land. 



The corn was planted May 20 and 21, with eight quarts of 

 Vermont yellow seed of small cob and large kernel. 



The following is the cost of the field of corn : — 



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