GRAIN CROPS. 



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Statement of Expense and Value op Crop of Corn. — Piece 



Manured in the Hill. 



Statement of C. E. Cooley. 



Indian Corn. — The piece contains two acres, lying on the 

 bank of the Deerfield River. The soil is a sandy loam, sand 

 predominating. The crop of 1873 was hay, 1,500 pounds to 

 the acre. No manure was used that year. The crop of 1874 

 was corn. Used seven cords of stable-manure to the acre. 

 The corn was badly eaten by cut-worms, consequently I bar- 

 vested a small crop. For the present crop, ploughed the 

 15th of May, six inches deep ; applied seven cords of 

 stable and sheep manure per acre in the furrow ; worked it 

 in with a pulverizer, and smoothed with fine harrow ; marked 

 both ways, distance 4 by 3|^ ; planted May 22 and 24 with 

 Canada cap corn ; used Bradley's phosphate in the hill ; 150 

 pounds per acre ; cultivated both ways, and hoed the first 

 time the middle of June ; at the same time applied ten 

 bushels of wood-ashes per acre by putting a handful upon 

 each hill. Hoed the second time July 2, cultivated one way 

 and thinned to four stalks in each hill. No other cultivation 



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