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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



To Ploughing, .... 

 Harrowing, .... 

 Planting, . . 



t-UtJLlj • • • • • 



Cultivating and hoeing, tliree times, 

 Topping and stacking stalks, . 

 Harvesting, .... 

 Interest on land, at ^50 per acre, 

 Total, 



Value of crop : — 

 By 99 bushels 41 quarts, at 87|- cts., 

 180 bundles top stalks, 



2 loads bottom stalks, . 

 400 lbs husks sold, . . 

 ^ value manure not expended, 



Expenses, . 

 Profit, 



855 12 



$103 75 

 55 12 



$48 63 



Note. — I would add that about half of the acre suffered very 

 much from the drought, which diminished the crop considera- 

 bly. 



Conway, November 5, 1856. 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Samuel W. Bates. 



The acre of land which I enter for the society's premium on 

 Indian corn, is a stony soil ; it was planted with potatoes last 

 year, without manure. The first of May last, carted from my 

 barn cellar, five cords manure, spread it and ploughed it in, 

 about six inches deep, then waited about ten days for the 

 ground to be dry, which was very wet. After which I spread 

 100 bushels leached ashes, and 150 lbs. guano, and three cords 

 compost manure, from hog-yard, and harrowed once. Fur- 

 rowed one way, six rows to the rod. Planted the 23d of May, 

 with the Whitman corn, about twenty inches apart, three corns 

 in a hill. Seed sowed at harvest time. 



