142 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Newton, surveyor, with the committee, measured one 

 rod, harvested and weighed the same, which weighed 63| lbs. 

 This, multiplied by 160, and divided by 72, only makes 141| 

 bushels of shelled corn. 



One hundred and forty-one and three quarters bushels 

 shelled corn, at $1 per bushel, 



Three hundred and thu'ty-three bundles of stalks at 

 twelve and a half cents per bundle, . 



About two tons of husks, 



Value of crop, .... 

 Deduct expenses, . . . . . 



Net, 



$141 75 



5 00 

 20 00 



$166 75 

 67 00 



$99 75 



HAMPDEN EAST. 



Slatejnent of J, K. Knox. 



Indian Corn. — The field of corn which I have entered 

 for the society's premium, contaius about three acres of a 

 sandy loam soil, and was cropped in 1874, about one-half 

 with corn and the other half with potatoes, with no other 

 fertilizer than a little salt and plaster. This year the land 

 was ploughed the first week in May. Manure ploughed in at 

 the rate of thirty-five cart-loads, of thirty bushels' capacity 

 each, and planted on the 19th and 20th of May ; and in one- 

 third of the field I put into the hill about one cord of a com- 

 post of earth and rotten chip-manure and night-soil, and in 

 one-third a similar amount of compost, with hen-manure 

 instead of night-soil, and in the last third I used two hundred 

 pounds of Bos worth & Bugbee's superphosphate, mixed with 

 an equal quantity of plaster. The consequence was a very 

 quick start of the crop and rapid growth, which ripened early, 

 and is decidedly the soundest and cleanest crop of corn that 

 I have ever raised. It Avas difficult to know which of the first 

 two fertilizers made the most corn, but they were both ahead 

 of the phosphate. The corn was so ripe and dry that I had 

 some of it ground into fine bread meal the 20th of September. 

 The crop was cut up the first week in September, putting five 

 rows in one, setting it up around one hill on the centre row, 

 one man following the two cutters and tying the tops with 



