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your committee, husked and put it in a room where we almost 

 constantly keep a fire, till November 8th, when I shelled it, and 

 had eighteen quarts of corn, making ninety bushels to the acre. 

 I manured the land last year for carrots, at the rate of thirty- 

 five cart-loads to the acre. This year it was planted to corn 

 without any manure, except 300 lbs. of super-phosphate of lime 

 to the acre, applied in the hill at the time of planting. The 

 expenses of the crop are given below : — 



Ploughing, .... 

 Furrowing, seed and planting. 

 Hoeing, three times, 

 150 lbs. super-phosphate of lime, 



Total, . 

 Yield — Ninety bushels to the acre. 



$1 50 

 2 50 

 4 00 

 4 50 



$12 50 



Statement of Sewall Parkhnrst. 



The half acre of land on which my corn was raised is a loamy 

 soil. In the spring of 1855, I spread on the grass twenty-five 

 cart-loads of manure from my barn cellar, to the acre, and 

 ploughed it in four inches deep, and planted with corn. This 

 year, before planting, I spread twenty cart-loads to the acre ; 

 ploughed and harrowed the ground twice. Planted the Porter 

 and Brown corn mixed, with a corn-planter. Expenses on the 

 half acre : — 



Carting and spreading manure, 



Plougliing and harrowing, twice, . 



Marking the ground and planting. 



Cultivating, twice, 



Hoeing, twice, . . . . 



Value of half manure, . 



Seed corn, 



00 

 00 

 75 

 75 

 00 

 00 

 25 



$13 75 



Total, . 

 Yield — Seventy-eight bushels, three pecks to the acre. 



Chelmsford. 



