108 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



straight, and not crinkle. You will find that the specimen 

 that received the first premium comes nearer to this descrip- 

 tion than the others. 



Major Emery. I think we are asking too much of that 

 committee. I have been on a great many committees where 

 it has been very hard to decide ; and I think it is hardly fair 

 to the committee to bring up that corn before this congrega- 

 tion, and ask, then, to criticise their judgment. Therefore 

 I would move that that matter be laid upon the table. 



This motion was carried without objection. 



Mr. Hapgood (of Shrewsbury). I have exhibited some 

 samples of corn, to which the officers of this society have 

 very kindly given a very prominent position. The land on 

 which that corn v/as grown was a clay loam, very good land. 

 It was planted on the last day of May and the first da}^ of 

 June. It was dressed with eight cords of stable manure to 

 the acre, — equal to about twenty -five two-horse loads of 

 manure. The corn came up in due time : and, when it was 

 about a foot high, I had it cultivated with a Boston horse- 

 hoe ; for the five or seven toothed wood-cultivator is no friend 

 of mine. I had one of them, and I threw it away. It slides 

 over the soil, and does not go deep enough for my purpose. 

 I cultivated it both ways when it was a foot high, twice in 

 the row, and then it stood until the corn was two feet and 

 eight or ten inches high ; then I cultivated it once one way, 

 twice in the row, and hoed it once : and that is all the culti- 

 vation there was of the crop. 



Question. How much did you get? 



Mr. Hapgood. Eighty-five bushels of shelled corn to the 

 acre. 



Question. What distance apart did you plant? 



Mr. Hapgood. I intended to plant in rows three and a 

 half by three feet, but- by some means they were about three 

 and a half b}^ three and a half this year ; but that did not 

 make any difference in the crop, or but very little. The 

 corn that I raise grows nine or ten feet high, and I don't 

 expect but one ear to a stalk. If I can grow three ears to 

 a hill, I shall have eighty bushels of corn to the acre. Three 

 ears of my corn to a hill, each ear thirteen or fourteen inches 

 long, will make eighty bushels to the acre. 



Question. What is the variety of corn? 



