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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Ten quarts seed-corn 



Six cords of manure at $5.50 per cord 



June 20 and 21, ploughing and hoeing corn 



July 1, 2, and 3, ploughing and hoeing corn 



Oct. 20, two days cutting stalks, binding, and carting 



Oct. 30, two days and a half cutting corn and carting 



Nov. 5, husking corn ...... 



Interest on land ....... 



Cr. 

 Nov. 8, by 102 bushels of shelled corn at 90 cents per bushel 



By 1,500 pounds of stalks 



By 2,500 pounds husks 



By pumpkins 



By manure remaining in the land . . . . . 



$0 75 



33 00 



5 25 



00 

 50 

 00 

 00 

 00 



$117 30 



Cost of corn per bushel, fifty-four and two-thirds cents. 



HAMPDEN EAST. 



[Statement of George E. Tucker & Son of Monson.] 



The field of corn which we enter in competition for the 

 premium offered by your society contains two acres and ten 

 rods of sward-land. It was ploughed about six inches deep, 

 harrowed thoroughly with Shares's harrow, after being 

 manured broadcast with about eight cords of stable and hog 

 manure per acre. 



It was planted the 24th of May, with a handful of plaster, 

 ashes, and hen-manure mixed in the hill. At the first hoe- 

 ing it was dusted again with the fertilizer, cultivated both 

 ways, and hoed three times, leaving the field, in a clean state 

 of cultivation. 



Cost of Crop. 



Ploughing $8 00 



Harrowing, and spreading manure 6 00 



Furrowing 150 



Seed-corn ............ 60 



Planting 4 00 



Cultivating and hoeing . • • • • • . . 15 00 



Harvesting 17 50 



Interest on land ..•• 6 00 



