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Corn, two acres sward, a deep loam; on one acre ploughed 

 in twenty loads coarse manure six and a half inches deep ; the 

 other acre ploughed same depth, and at the suggestion of a 

 , friend, did not plough in any manure ; on the whole piece put 

 two-thirds of a gill of poudrette in the hill. Nearly one-half 

 of the field, which was moist ground, was injured by the wire- 

 worm, and later in the season, by a worm which eat off the 

 roots ; for a time it seemed doubtful whether there would be 

 any thing on one-half of the piece. 



Now I think it is claimed by the manufacturers or venders of 

 poudrette, that no worms will stay in a hill of corn where it is 

 placed. That did not prove true in this instance, for the corn- 

 hills were infested with worms both early and late. 



From the whole piece we harvested forty-five bushels, twenty- 

 eight bushels from the part where the manure was ploughed in, 

 and seventeen bushels from the other half. 



The other acre was planted to corn last year, ploughed in 

 twenty loads manure, planted three and a half feet apart each 

 way, with a half pint of compost of hen manure and muck in 

 the hill. The corn had a very thrifty appearance until the first 

 of August, when it began to fail on account of the drought, it 

 being a dry, gravelly piece of ground, and was injured more, 

 without doubt, than it would have been, had it been sward land 

 last spring. Harvested forty bushels. 



Potatoes, one acre ; planted in rows, three and one-half feet 

 apart ; hills eighteen inches. Potatoes were cut so that there 

 were three eyes on a piece, and one piece to a hill, with a 

 tablcspoonful of plaster in each hill ; no other manure except 

 what remained of last year's dressing of twenty loads to the 

 acre. The lot was planted to corn last year. Had one hundred 

 thirty bushels of four varieties ; Davis's Seedlings were the 

 best. 



Carrots, twenty rods ; had forty bushels, at a cost of twenty- 

 one cents per bushel. 



Turnips, two hundred and seventy-three bushels, at a cost of 

 six and one-half cents per bushel ; they were Skirving's improved 

 Swedish turnip ; planted one-half an acre. The lot was 

 planted to corn last year. First of June ploughed in ten loads 

 of manure ; planted with a seed-sower, June twentieth, in rows 

 two feet apart. Very soon after they were up, some insect — 



