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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



except cutting up the weeds among it about the first of 

 August with the hoe ; harvested the middle of September, 

 aud husked the last of October. The yield was 1021 bushels 

 per acre, shelled corn ; stover weighed eight tons. 



Cost of Crop. 



Two acres, ploughing and preparation for planting, 

 Planting, ...... 



Cultivating, hoeing and thinning, 



Harvesting and husking, . 



Seed, ...... 



Applying ashes and phosphate, 

 Cost of same, ..... 



Manure removed by crop, 



Total, 



$8 00 



8 00 



15 00 



25 00 



1 50 



3 00 



12 00 



56 00 



8128 50 



PLYMOUTH. 



. Statement of John Sample. 



Indian Corn. — The land I planted with corn had been in 

 grass some ten years, without manure, and, for the last five 

 years, had yielded but about ten or twelve hundred pounds 

 of hay per acre. The soil is a sandy loam. Upon the acre I 

 entered for premium, forty loads of manure, of thirty bushels 

 each, was spread and ploughed in, seven inches deep. May 

 18, 1875, the ground harrowed three times, and furrowed one 

 way; planted May 22, in rows three aud a half feet apart, 

 and in hills two feet apart in the rows, using twelve quarts of 

 smutty white corn ; a handful of hen-manure, mixed with 

 three times its bulk of soil, was put in each hill, and eighty 

 bushels of leached ashes spread upon the tops of the hills 

 after planting ; cultivated twice with a cultivator, and hoed 

 twice ; the stalks were cut September 16, and the corn har- 

 vested October 20. The seed came up slowly, owing to the 

 dry weather ; but after it came up, the growth was rapid, and 

 the corn ripened off well, being but very slightly injured by 

 the early frost. The ashes put upon the hills I should have 

 spread broadcast, before planting, but for delays in getting 

 them. The product was 93^| bushels of corn and about three 

 tons of stover. 



