270 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The first six acres, in the order of numbering, have been planted 

 three years in succession with corn, and manured Avith the same kind 

 of fertilizers as this year, except No. 3, which was guanoed in 1854. 

 In 1854-5 the fertilizers were used in the hill, but this year mixed 

 with moist loam and sown broadcast in damp weather and covered with 

 the harrow. 



The corn came up well and grew thriftily until the first of August, 

 when an unfavorable change became apparent. On No. 1, the ears 

 were large, long and sound. Upon 2, 3, 4, 5, the corn was not so 

 good. No. 6, was sound and handsome, but not equal to No. 1. 



No. 7 was manured with two dressings, one before ploughing, of 

 45 loads per acre, of 326 gallons, and the other of 30 loads at the 

 time of the second hoeing. Until August, the corn looked very 

 inferior. It now put on a thrifty appearance. 



No. 8. Two acres were manured with barn cellar compost, 8-i cords 

 per acre, spread and ploughed in. The yield Avas 77 bushels of ears 

 per acre. This piece of land had been planted six years with corn, 

 and last year was only manured with a compost of swamp muck, 

 cornstalks and waste with lime, which will account for its deficiency. 



No 9. Two acres were manured also with 8^ cords of barn cellar 

 compost, and 150 pounds of guano per acre, and produced 146 bush- 

 els of ears per acre. The corn was large and sound. 



No. 10. Two acres were manured Avith 8^ cords of barn cellar 

 manure per acre, yield 123 bushels of ears per acre. Nos. 7, 8, 9, 

 10, have been planted to corn three years in succession, and 8-y cords 

 of barn cellar manure Avere applied per acre, each year, spread and 

 ploughed in, Avith the exception of No. 9, AAdiich, last year received 

 $6 Avorth of barn cellar manure and 300 pounds of super-phosphate 

 lime. The field of fourteen acres, Avas ploughed nine inches deep, 

 planted in hills three feet by two and a half apart. May 28th and 

 29th, Avith "smutty Avhite," or Plymouth corn, thoroughly hoed three 

 times, harvested and measured Avith results as stated. 



Five acres, called the Sibley lot, produced a crop of rye last year. 

 It Avas manured Avith stable compost and guano and produced 366 

 bushels of ears of corn. The land is inferior to that on the plain, 

 not easy of access, and has, therefore, been lightly manured in former 

 years. 



Another lot of three acres, " the old rye field," has, hitherto, been 

 lightly manured. This year, 10 cords of reservoir compost Avere 

 applied, and planted to Connecticut RiA-er corn, and produced 210 

 bushels of long, full and hale ears of corn — 70 per acre. 



Three and a fourth acres of land Avere rented of Mr. Brigham, 



