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about seven inches deep. May 13th we spread on four cords of 

 horse manure, and throe and a half of compost horse manure. 

 May 14th, harrowed lightly and cultivated both ways. From 

 May 15th to 19tli, planted with Plymouth county, or smutty 

 white corn — after putting about two cords of compost manure, 

 made from the hencoop and outhouses, mixed with loam — in 

 hills, averaging three and a half feet apart. It was planted as 

 last year, four making a square, with two near the centre ; but 

 from some unexplainable cause it came up very poorly, having 

 upon an average only four to the hill. We cultivated the field 

 three times and hoed twice. In many hills there were but one 

 or two stalks, and consequently, as the ground was slightly 

 manured, there was a large quantity of suckers, which were all 

 cut, with the stalks, between September 8th and 17th. They 

 were cut one day and got in the next, and set up on a neigh- 

 bor's barn floor, where there was room to cure them. The corn 

 was harvested (excepting the rod left for the committee to har- 

 vest) from October 7th to the 18th ; and there was on the field 

 1Q2^ baskets of sound corn and six of refuse, equal, as thought, 

 to 1654^ of good sound corn on the acre, one basket of which was 

 laid by itself, to dry until November 10th, when it was shelled 

 and weighed in the presence of one of the committee, and was 

 found to be 37f pounds of corn, making, as calculated, 110.82 

 bushels per acre, being a fraction more than the rod which the 

 committee harvested. 



• In order to arrive at the weight of the fodder, we cut the 

 stalks and suckers from the two rows through the centre- of the 

 field, and after curing, kept them by themselves until weighed 

 by the committee ; also the weight of the buts and husks on two 

 rows. 



We observe that it is usual to deduct one-third of the value 

 of manure as not taken up by the crop, which was done. We, 

 however, are inclined to the opinion, that wlien there are 110 

 bushels of corn and five tons of fodder taken from an acre of 

 land, but little, if any, deduction should be made for the manure 

 left in the ground. We have, accordingly, in our estimate of 

 expenses, added the whole cost of manure. We make our esti- 

 mate as follows. 



