INDIAN CORN. 183 



Income : — 



Amount of corn as measured by tlie super- 

 visor, one hundred and one and fifteen 

 eighty-fifths bushels, at 90 cents, . . $91 05 



Two and a half tons corn fodder, at $8, . 20 00 



naif the manure and ashes not exhausted 



by the corn crop, . . . . . 30 50 



$141 55 



Net profit, $50 90 



Bkidgewater, Mass. 



Horace Collamores Statement. 



Having entered as a competitor for the premium offered by 

 the Plymouth County Agricultural Society, " for the best field 

 of Indian corn, not less than two acres," I will state that the 

 soil is a sandy loam, was in corn tlie last year, prior to which 

 it had laid in grass five or six years. About the first of May 

 eighty loads (of forty cubic feet) of good compost manure were 

 spread on the field and ploughed in with the double mould- 

 board Michigan plough, (averaging nine inches in depth.) It 

 was harrowed and planted with corn, without any manure in 

 the hill, on the 17th and 18th days of May, three feet apart one 

 way, by two feet the other. Just before weeding, twenty 

 bushels of leached ashes were put around the corn ; it was 

 cultivated and hoed twice. The crop suff^ered very little from 

 the drought of June and July, which I attribute to the extra 

 depth of ploughing ; but when the wet season commenced, it 

 run up rapidly to a height never before attained, I presume, by 

 the Whitman corn. This, I think, had a tendency to lessen the 

 crop in proportion to the increase of the fodder. 



It is contrary to my usual practice to plant a field to Indian 

 corn two years in succession — a practice I would by no means 

 recommend to others, for I am confident that, but for this cause, 

 my crop would have been much larger. 



In addition to the corn crop we have raised five loads of very 

 fine pumpkins. 



