72 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



lime, $13 worth of Peruvian guano, together with a quantity of 

 damaged meat and fish, were mixed up witli soil sufficient to 

 make the sixteen cords. Upon the other half tliirteen cords of 

 barn manure were spread, and the whole was well coYcred and 

 mixed, by drawing over it a large cultivator and then harrow- 

 ing it both ways, after which it was rolled. It was planted on 

 the lotli of May, in hills three feet nine inches apart, with Mr. 

 Porter's early, or Canada corn. It was hoed three times, a cul- 

 tivator being used at the two first hoeings, and by the 20th Sep- 

 tember it was sufficiently ripe to harvest ; but, for want of time, 

 it was not harvested until last week. 

 The yield was ninety bushels per acre. 



Haverhill, Nov. 14, 1855. 



WORCESTEB NORTH. 



From the Rejjort of the Coimnittee. 



It cannot be said of Indian corn, as of wheat, that it is an 

 uncertain crop, for with good cultivation we are sure, nineteen 

 out of twenty years, of a bountiful harvest. On this grain the 

 farmer mainly depends to fatten his beef and pork, and to give 

 strength to his animals for labor ; and what could the farmer 

 himself do without a good supply of Indian bread and pudding 

 to give him strength for the labor of the farm ? It is often said 

 that we cannot raise corn on our rough farms for less than one 

 dollar per bushel, which we think is not true. The average cost 

 of corn ofiercd in this society for premium this year, is not far 

 from fifty cents per bushel, and we think that, with the use of 

 labor-saving implements and a bountiful application of ma- 

 nure, it can be raised at from fifty to seventy-five cents per 

 bushel generally, which, at the present prices, leaves a good 

 profit for its cultivation. 



Joseph Upton, Chairman. 



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Statement of W. G. Wyman. 



The acre of corn which 1 offer for your examination is part 

 of afield of three and one-fourth acres, which, in 1853, produced 

 only 1,650 pounds of hay, it having been mown eight years pre- 



