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planted on sod without any manure, it yielded at the rate, respectively, 

 of 93 and 94 bushels per acre. On a third plot, ammoniacal manure, 

 costing at the rate of $26 per acre, gave an increase of only one bushel 

 per acre. On a fourth plot, 100 pounds of muriate of i)otash, costing 

 $2.75, increased the yield to the rate of 109 bushels per acre. The 

 quantity was determined by weighing the corn on the cob, and allowing 

 eighty pounds to the bushel. 



Dr. David Petit, of Salem County, is reported to have harvested this 

 season, from corn planted 2 feet by 3 feet apart, 283 bushels per 

 acre, the fact being attested by a "sworn statement." It is added, that 

 he has produced single ears of " yellow field-corn " which would yield a 

 quart of shelled corn each. 



Mr. John Wall, of Madison, Morris County, grew a field of fifteen 

 acres, which was treated as follows : Six years ago the field was cleared, 

 plowed, treated with 50 bushels per acre of gas-lime, and sown in grass. 

 Last spring the sod was turned, a little ashes and bone put in the hill, 

 and, after the corn was up, 50 bushels per acre of slacked lime spread 

 on. The product of one acre, judged to be a fair average of the whole, 

 was measured, and the yield was 171 bushels of very large ears. 



Mr. Wall also reports the result of an experiment in growing potatoes. 

 On sod-land, barn -yard manure was dropped in heaps last fall, at the 

 rate of twelve loads per acre. In the spring this was spread broadcast 

 and plowed in. With a "cabbage-plow," very shallow furrows were 

 made 3 feet aparr, and about GOO pounds per acre of bone-dust were 

 dropped in the furrows, in which cut potatoes, of the Peerless variety, 

 with two eyes in a piece, were planted, 12 inches apart, and covered 

 lightly with the plow. When the plants were 5 inches above ground, 50 

 bushels per acre of slacked lime were spread on. The field was plowed 

 three times: first deep, and throwing the furrow away from the rows; 

 second, throwing the furrow to the rows; and third, the middles were 

 split, throwing the furrow to the rows. The beetles were caught and 

 killed. The product measured 288f bushels per acre. Most of the seed 

 used was of large potatoes, which gave a better yield than that of 

 small. On measured portions of the field, Mr. Wall applied bone-dust 

 in different quantities, and from the result concludes that 2,000 pounds 

 per acre is the most profitable rate. He is decidedly in favor of shallow 

 planting and covering. 



Ckanberribs in New Jersey. — A correspondent in Atlantic County 

 New Jersey, reports the following facts respecting cranberry production 

 in the western portion of that, and in the eastern part of the adjoining 

 county of Camden. Within an area having a radius of about ten miles, 

 there are 1,000 to 1,200 acres in cranberry meadows. They are owned 

 partly by companies and partly by indivicluals, and vary in extent from 

 half an acre to 100 acres. The early promise of an enormous yield the 

 past season was reduced at least one-third by the rot. On all meadows 

 thoroughly drained and well supplied with running water, the fruit suf- 

 fered but little. On low places where the water is stagnant, and on 

 meadows where the top muck has been removed, the fruit rots every 

 year. This year the fruit was attacked by a new disease, or by the old 

 one in a new form, and later in the season. In a bunch of matured 

 berries, in contact, a part will be sound and others aifected, and single 

 berries are found one-half sound and the other soft. vSome meadows 

 have proved an entire failure, while others have yielded more than 100 

 bushels per acre. The average yield will not be more tban 35 or 40 

 bushels per acre. In respect to size and evenness, the quality is about 



