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weighed 273 pounds, equal to 5,080 pounds in the whole. 

 September 3, cut stalks on four rows, wliich weighed 353, equal 

 to 6,530 in the whole, green. October 20, harvested tlic corn, 

 which measured one hundred and eighty-four and a lialf bushels 

 of ears, equal to ninety-two and a quarter bushels shelled corn, 

 which weighed G,G46 pounds. The husks from four rows 

 weighed two hundred and six pounds, equal to 3,811 pounds, in 

 the whole, weighed dry. 



Recapitulation : — 



921 bushels corn, weighed 6,646 lbs., at 95 cents, 

 3,811 lbs. husks, $5 per ton, ..... 



5,050 '^ stover, $5 " 



6,530 " stalks, $5 " 



$126 11 



HuBBARDSTON, Nov. 29, 1853. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Joel Hay ward's Statement. 



The land on which my corn was raised was planted with 

 potatoes last year. Last spring fourteen loads of green manure 

 were spread and ploughed in, and thirteen loads of compost put 

 in the hill. The corn was planted May 3d. Corn, Tuscan 

 white. 

 27 loads manure, . ". . . ... . $27 00 



Ploughing, ........ 2 00 



Teaming and spreading manure, .... 2 00 



Tlanting, 4 00 



Hoeing, ........ 6 00 



$41 00 



This field had twenty and one-third hills to the square rod, 

 the ears weighing 46^ lbs. to the rod, making ninety bushels to 

 the acre. 



ASHBY. 



