158 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Daniel Works^ Statement. 



The land on which my corn was raised was part sowed and 

 part planted last year. Last spring twenty loads of green 

 manure and ten loads of compost were spread and ploughed in. 

 No manure was put in the hill. Corn hoed but twice. 



30 loads of manure, ...... $30 00 



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



Spreading manure, ...... 3 50 



Furrowing and planting, . . . . . 2 83 



Hoeing, ........ 7 00 



$45 33 



This field had 32 J hills to the rod, the ears weighing 441 

 Ibs., making eighty-six bushels to the acre. 



HAMPSHIEE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



Statement of George Dickinson. 



Tlie piece of land on which the corn was raised, contains 

 four acres and ninety rods, and yielded two hundred and ninety- 

 seven bushels and fifteen quarts of shelled corn; weighing 

 fifty-four and a half pounds to the bushel, or sixty-three bush- 

 els and five-ninths per acre, Aveighing fifty-six pounds to the 

 bushel. 



The land is first quality meadow land — a deep, heavy loam — 

 and previous to 1852, most of it had lain in grass for eight 

 years, producing two crops each year, without any top-dressing. 

 In the spring of 1852, it was ploughed to the depth of eight 

 or nine inches, and manure applied. It was planted then to 

 broomcorn. The manure was put into the hole, at the rate of 

 nine loads to the acre. This crop yielded about seven hundred 

 pounds brush to the acre, and a fair crop of seed. 



Lithe spring of 1853, the land was ploughed about eight 

 inches deep, twelve loads of manure to the acre, spread on 

 and harrowed in, and planted the last days of JMay. It is esti- 

 mated that the crows pulled, on the whole piece, nearly a quar- 

 ter of an acre. 



