1G8 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



year, ploughed and manure spread on the furrow, aslies and 

 plaster in the hill, planted 17th May, tliirty-scven hills on the 

 rod, soil gravelly loam, yield 112 bushels to the acre. 



To Orrin Curtis, of Great Barrington, for the second best 

 piece of four acres of corn, we award an extra premium. 

 Statement : Corn last year, ploughed deep and manured in the 

 hill from the distillery, planted the first week in May, ripe and 

 harvested the 10th of September, forty-eight hills on the rod, 

 Tillotson corn, soil dark loam, some clay and muck, yield 105 

 bushels on the acre. 



S. H. BusHNELL, Chairman. 



NORFOLK. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



The subjoined papers are submitted with much satisfaction, 

 affording, as they do, gratifying evidence not only of the in- 

 creasing interest and skill of the farmers of Norfolk County 

 in the cultivation of grain, but also of the feasibility of our 

 soils for this purpose, and of the large profits resulting from 

 these experiments. 



J. P. Jones, Chairman, 



Statement of Luther Gilbert. 



The field of corn entered by me for premium, contains two 

 acres ; the soil is a black loam generally, and part of it mix- 

 ture of gravel. The condition of the field was poor; it was 

 sowed down to grass in the fall of 1846, without any manure; 

 it has been in grass ever since, until September, 1852, when I 

 had it broke up about ten inches deep. The manure used on this 

 field was a compost made entirely, between the 18th of No- 

 vember, 1852, and the last of April, 1853, from one horse, one 

 cow, and sods taken from the above field and composted in 

 my barn cellar by my hogs. As the bulk of the manure was 

 taken from the same field to which it was returned, I shall only 

 estimate the value of the horse and cow manure, the use of 

 the hogs for composting, and the carting the sods into the cel- 

 lar, as that was the only cost to me. The compost was carted 



