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Onions, a total failure ; beets, nearly so. It was also used with 

 barley and a small piece of wheat ; but, as no comparison was 

 made with other manures, its value in these cases could not be 

 ascertained ; the crops, however, were good. 



I have often heard the opinion expressed, that a hundred 

 bushels of corn could not be raised on an acre ; but I am satis- 

 fied that if on a rocky, thin soil, eighty-four bushels can be 

 raised in an unfavorable season, one hundred may easily be 

 raised on a suitable soil in a favorable season. In fact, the 

 opinion was often expressed, that, had the season been favor- 

 able, one hundred bushels would have been raised on the acre 

 offered by me for premium. I have no doubt that, with high 

 manuring and high cultivation, corn may be made a profitable 

 crop. Without these conditions, no crop can be made profit- 

 able. 



Lucius Clapp. 



Stoughton, Nov. 10, 1855. 



Statement of E. and J. Sias. 



The field of corn which was entered by us for a premium 

 was measured by Mr. Charles Breck, and contained, in the 

 whole, one acre and thirty-four rods. Our method of cultivation 

 was as follows : The land, which was in grass, was ploughed 

 with a double mould-board plough, the 24th of April. On the 

 28th of April, about four and three-fourths cords of piggery 

 manure was spread and harrowed in. The field was marked 

 out with a plough only one way, in rows three feet apart, and 

 mamired in the hill with about four and a half cords of com- 

 post barn manure. It was planted, from the 8tli to the 11th of 

 May, with what we call the Plymouth county or smutty white 

 corn, in hills about two and a half feet apart, four kernels 

 making a square of six inches, with one in the centre. We 

 are of the opinion that we can raise as much corn by planting 

 three feet apart each way as in any other. The field was culti- 

 vated three times and hoed twice ; hilled up but very little. 

 The stalks were cut from the 8th to the 12th of September, 

 sunned one day, and then hung up under the roof of the barn 

 until perfectly dry. We think that the corn was injured very 



much by the dry weather, and also by the high winds, which 

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