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harvested so soon, by about two weeks, as you directed ; conse- 

 quently it was very dry when taken in. Just one acre was sur- 

 veyed and staked off, and it was harvested about the 25th of 

 October, and it weighed 5,318 pounds, or sixty-two and forty- 

 eight eighty-fifths bushels, reckoning eighty-five pounds to the 

 bushel ; but in the state in which it is in, I think a less amount 

 will make a bushel. I have also raised on the acre, by estimate, 

 four tons of pumpkins, which I do not think is good policy, if 

 the greatest possible amount of corn is the object. 



The kind of corn planted on the principal part of the acre 

 was a twelve-rowed yellow corn, which I obtained of Charles 

 G. Davis, Esq., of Plymouth, called by him the stone corn, I 

 believe. 



EXPENSES. 



Ploughing and sowing rye in 1861, . 

 8 cords of manure, .... 

 Carting and spreading, 

 ^ cord compost in the hill. 



Ploughing, 



Harrowing and marking, . 

 Planting, ..... 



Cultivating and hoeing, . 

 Cutting stalks and harvesting, . 

 Interest on land, .... 



$64 50 



Bridge WATER, October 27, 1862. 



Statement of Leavitt T. Robbins. 



Wheat. — The field had been planted with corn two year? 

 previous, manured with about forty horse-loads of manure per 

 acre, ploughed in. This spring I prepared the ground by 

 ploughing in forty horse-loads of compost stable and hog 

 manure per acre, mixed with dock mud, kelp and hemp-waste ; 

 ground ploughed deep, and harrowed over several times with 

 iron tooth harrow ; and lastly, after sowing my grass seed, 

 harrowed over with brusli harrow. 



Wheat sown April 17, two bushels per acre, harvested last 

 week in July, with sickle, threshed out September 18, 1861. 



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