112 BOARD OP AGEICULTURE. [Jan., 



field an acre, and they did so. The requirement of the test 

 was this : On the first day of January, 70 pounds of ears were 

 to make a bushel of shelled corn. This was the basis of the 

 award which gave the grower 1171 bushels. I myself shelled 

 70 pounds of ears, which gave me a bushel and four quarts of 

 corn. Now, if you will take a pencil, you will see in a 

 moment that the actual product of that acre was 13 li bush- 

 els. This bushel that I shelled I took from the crib, and it 

 was no more than an average bushel. 



Mr. Jennings. I am a good deal interested in this ques- 

 tion of corn. You will see on the table, on the other side of 

 the hall, a variety of corn called the Chester County Mam- 

 moth, and, according to the best measurement we have been 

 able to make, it yields 117i bushels of shelled corn per acre. 

 That has been produced this past season, and with no refer- 

 ence whatever to a premium, with common cultivation, as 

 corn is cultivated by the best cultivators in that part of the 

 State from which I come, the town of Westport. There are 

 other varieties of corn on the table, and some yield nearly as 

 high as that; but that is the highest. There are some varie- 

 ties there that I think are marked between 80 and 90 bushels 

 to the acre, and it is raised, as I remarked, under the com- 

 mon method of cultivation, with, of course, a good deal of 

 manure. I cannot give the details, but this corn that I speak 

 of as yielding 117i bushels to the acre was manured heavily 

 with stable-manure, turned over in the spring (perhaps a 

 week before planting time), the land marked out in rows four 

 feet apart each way, and then a small portion of phosphate 

 put in each hill, and a little sprinkled around, say three or 

 four inches from where the corn was planted ; then the seed 

 was covered, and received flat cultivation all through the 

 season. 



Mr. ScoviLLE. At what stage did the cultivation of those 

 potatoes cease ? 



Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Warren told me that, previous to 

 hoeing, he probably cultivated his potatoes four times with 

 an ordinary cultivator. When the potatoes were about ten 



