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two bands above the ears. I also planted beans among the 

 corn one way, and raised twenty-six bushels, that sold at $2.25 

 per bushel ; and at the second and last hoeing, I sowed grass- 

 seed, and hoed flat, or rather used garden-rakes to do this 

 hoeing. 



The following is the measure and weight of crop of corn 

 which I took from just three acres, having husked a little of 

 the field before I measured off any. On the three acres 

 there were 332 baskets of forty-one pounds each, or 13,612 

 pounds, while 69^ pounds gave fifty-six pounds shelled corn, 

 and an average of 65^|^f bushels per acre for the three acres. 

 Now as to the fodder, there is too much of that ; I have no 

 room for more in my barns. If I am to raise any more, I 

 want a kind that will produce more corn and smaller fodder. 



DEERFIELD VALLEY. 



Statement of A. R. White. 



Indian Corn. — The field of corn which I enter for premium 

 contains one acre. The soil is a heavy loam, clay subsoil, 

 and quite stony. Most of the piece was never ploughed until 

 I ploughed in 1873, it being very rough, covered with banks 

 and stones. The crop of 1873 was potatoes, Avith no manure 

 except tobacco stalks in the hill, except a small part of the 

 piece which had been ploughed years before ; the crop on 

 this part was tobacco, manured with cattle droppings from 

 vault under stable at the rate of forty loads of thirty bushels 

 each. The crop of 1874 was Hungarian grass, with no 

 manure. The ground for the present crop was ploughed the 

 27th day of May six inches deep, and harrowed only suffi- 

 ciently to level the furrows. One-half of the piece was fur- 

 rowed about six inches deep, ?)\ feet apart, and manured in 

 the hill with hos^ manure made from muck loam and waste 

 from the kitchen, at the rate of eighteen loads to the acre; 

 the remainder had, at the rate of thirty-five loads to the acre, 

 of stable manure ploughed under. The rows were 3^ feet 

 apart, hills three feet. One gill of wood-ashes was put in 

 each hill. The piece was planted the 1st of June by hand ; 

 I planted twelve quarts of seed, the eight-rowed variety. 

 The field was cultivated twice during the season, and hoed 



