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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Manure, ....... 



Laying out and spreading the manure, 16 loads, 



Laying out the ashes, 16 bushels, 



Ploughing and harrowing. 



Marking and planting, .... 



Cultivating with the horse hoe. 

 Hoeing with the hand hoe, twice, 



$16 00 



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$31 00 



Statement of Jabez Fisher. 



The acre of corn, which I enter for the society's premium, was 

 planted upon a moderately strong loam, resting upon a clayey 

 bottom. Its slope was toward the south and east. Cultivated 

 last year for sweet and fodder corn. Ploughed twice during 

 the third week in May, ten or twelve inches deep. Manured 

 broad cast, previous to ploughing, with fourteen loads, contain- 

 ing four and a half cords of the following compost. Of the 

 clear droppings, solid and liquid, of one horse and seven head 

 of neat stock, fonr parts, wool waste, one part. Corn, of the 

 improved King Philip variety, was sown, May 26, in drills, three 

 feet eight inches apart ; the stalks, at gathering, averaging seven 

 and a half inches distant from each other in the row. Manured 

 in the drill with hen manure, worked fine with loam. Hoed 

 twice with the horse hoe, followed by the hand hoe. Culture 

 entirely flat. Stalks were cut up whole, September 24, and 

 stooked on the field. It was husked the last week in October, 

 and yielded 6,640 lbs. of ears, or forty-one and a half pounds to 

 the square rod. The whole amount of soft corn was less than a 

 bushel, of which I make no account. 



One acre of land, in account with Jabez Fisher, 



Cr. 



By 92f bushels, 72 lbs. each, of sound corn, at $1.12i, $103 75 



" Fodder, 15 00 



" Unexpended manure, | of the whole, . . 14 00 



L32 75 



