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manured witli 8} cords of best barn cellar compost per acre, spread, 

 ploughed in, and planted May 23d, witli King Philip corn, and 

 yielded 273 bushels of ears of corn, or 84 bushels of ears per acre. 

 The stalks were small and the corn ripened early. 



Another lot of seven acres of old pasture was manured with 300 

 pounds of guano per acre, -planted May 20th and 21st with Brigham 

 corn and produced G07 bushels of cars of corn, or 86|- bushels of ears 

 per acre, manure never having been applied to this land. 



Two acres manured with piggery compost, 6| cords per acre, spread, 

 ploughed in, furrowed three feet apart one way, and the other way 

 one acre four feet apart; and the other, eighteen inches. On the 

 former acre five stalks stood in a hill, and the other, three. Both 

 were planted the same day, one with a hoe and the other wdth Ran- 

 dall's corn planter ; both hoed three times. The corn was all good, 

 and that produced on that part of the field planted four and a half feet 

 apart was better filled and every way superior to the other. 



Of the thirty-five acres of corn twenty-four were cut up and 

 shocked, eleven topped ; and in every lot, says the farmer, -the corn 

 was better with the former mode of harvesting than the latter. 



The corn was all measured in the ear. 



The following statements exhibit the results produced by the appli- 

 cation of the various fertilizers to the 'same land, on the corn crops, for 

 the years 1854-5-6. 



Cor7i on the Plain, six lots of one acre each. 



Expense of fertilizers per acre, 1854, 



No. 



1. Reservoir manure, 



2. and 3. Guano, . . '. 



4. Mapes' super-phospliate, . 



5. De Burg's super-phosphate, 



6. Bones, ground, . 



Expense of fertilizers per acre, 1855, 



Ko. 



1. Stable compost, .... 



2. Guano, (corn did not come up well,) 



3. Potash, ...... 



4. Mapes' super-phosphate, . 



5. De Burg's super-phosphate, 



6. Mui-iate of lime, .... 



$10 00 



Bush, of Ears per Acre. 



87 

 72 

 85 



101 , 

 00 



112 00 



Bush, of Ears per Acre. 



99 

 59 

 70 

 86 

 721 



'"2 



65 



For experiment of 185G, see page 269. 



