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July 13, the cultivator was run between the rows, and was 

 followed by the hoe, thoroughly cleaning the weeds. From 

 June 12 to July 3, the weather was exceedingly dry ; and a 

 portion of the field suffered for rain, also causing it to rust, 

 which hindered the growth of ears. Sept. 1 cut in stacks 

 of fifteen hills, each about four hundred stacks, which 

 weighed thirteen pounds and a half per stack when thorough- 

 ly dry, and separated from the grain; being five^ thousand 

 four hundred pounds of stalks. The grain in the ear was 

 measured at the rate of seventy pounds per bushel at husk- 

 ing, being eighty-nine baskets. There were also four hundred 

 pounds husks. 



The next piece to which I call your attention, a hundred 

 and sixty-five rods, was, in 1860, in a reduced condition, con- 

 sisting of upland loam. This is the third time I have planted 

 it in twenty years. It was laid down to grass in 1874. 

 In 1879 planted one half-acre to potatoes, using six loads 

 stable manure in the hill : a poor crop of potatoes was the 

 result. In May last (the 8th) ploughed the potato-ground, 

 and sufficient grass-ground to make a hundred and sixty- 

 five rods, turning under twenty loads of calf and horse 

 manure, — eight of the former, and twelve of the latter; fur- 

 rowed in rows three feet and a half apart ; and dropped a 

 compost of swamp-muck, horse-manure, hen-manure, and 

 night-soil, to the amount of four loads in the hill, three feet 

 apart; covering, and planting two inches deep, May 20, using 

 five kernels in each hill. Came up even, of a dark color, and 

 grew well. Ran the cultivator between the rows June 3, 17, 

 and July 13, following with hoe ; hilled very little last times ; 

 cut, Sept. 9, in three hundred stacks, weighing, when dry, ex- 

 clusive of grain, forty-five hundred pounds. The corn, yield- 

 ing ninety bushels of seventy pounds each, was shelled the 

 present month (December), and produced, when weighed, 

 82|| bushels, a shrinkage of 7|| bushels from husking; seven 

 hundred pounds of ears yielding five hundred and eighty- 

 three pounds and a half grain, and a hundred and sixteen 

 pounds and a half cobs, or eleven pounds cobs to fifty -six 

 pounds grain. 



George E. Taylor. 



Shelburne, Dec. 29, 1880. 



