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directly from the barn cellar, — without turning over, — about 

 the last of April, and spread as even over tlie Avhole field as it 

 could well be, an I immediately ploughed in. The quantity 

 spread iu this way, was about sixteen cords to the field, — or 

 ciglit cords to tjlie acre; — it was then harrovred and furrowed 

 both ways, three feet four inches one way, three feet the other. 

 There were about two cords of 'scrapings of the cellar put in 

 the hill;- op such parts of the field as the soil was poorest, one 

 shovelful in the hill. On the 10th and 11th of May, I planted 

 it with the Plymouth County corn, putting six to .eight kernels 

 to each hill ; cidtivated and hoed it twice, taking out all but 

 five, and sdinetimes four, stalks at hoeing time. 



On the 18th of October, the society's cpmmittee, after 

 examining the whole field, selected two places, in separate 

 parts of the field, and measured one square rod in each, which 

 the committee considered to be a fair average of the whole. 

 They measured from the centre between two rows, and gath- 

 ered, shelled, and weighed each rod separately : the first rod 

 weighed 44 j- pounds: the second, 46^ pounds; making the 

 average, 45^ pounds to the rod; reckoning 56 pounds to the 

 bushel, as per rule of .he society, and it gives me 129^^ bush- 

 els to the acre. The corn was well ripened, and I com- 

 menced on the same day to harvest it. . 



Debt and credit on the above field : — '; P 



Land valued by the assessors at $225 per acre, 



interest on ditto, . . . .. . $27 00 



Taxes on the same, this year, . • . . 2 56 



Ploughing in September, 1852, . . . S' 00 



Carting sods into barn cellar for hogs, at sun- 

 dry times, . . . . . . 10 00 



Manure of horse and cow, 5i months, . . 8 00 



Use of hogs to work over sods and composting, 10 00 



Applying manure, $10; ploughing, harrowing, 



and furrowing, $6, . . . . . 16 00 



Seed corn and planting, $3.50; cultivating and 



hoeing, $6, 9 50 



Cutting stalks and harvesting, . . . 16 00 



-$104 GG 



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