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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



The weather was very dry up to the day the manure was 

 spread on plot No. 4, (May 19th,) and from the following 

 niglit to the day of harvesting, there was no time when it 

 could be said to be dry, so that very little of the manure was 

 lost. Had it been dry two weeks longer, much of the strength 

 of that spread on the surface would have been lost by evapora- 

 tion. Therefore this part of the experiment is not satisfactory, 

 although through no fault of mine. 



The field was planted with corn on the nineteenth day of 

 May, 1860. As soon as the corn was well up it was cultivated 

 both ways. The second week in June it was again cultivated, 

 and hoed, and cultivated again the fourth week in June, and 

 hoed the first week in July. Nothing more was done to it 

 until the thirteenth of September, when the stalks were cut 

 and haked up in the field, where they remained until the last 

 of the month, when they were weighed and put in the barn, 

 and the corn was harvested the second week in October. 



It will be seen by the accompanying schedule that plot No. 3 

 gave the greatest weight of good corn, and the least poor ; and 

 No. 2 was next in order, while almost one-half of the product 

 of No. 5 was not dry enough to put in bin, and was classed as 

 poor corn, having moulded on the ear very much. 



Plot No. 2 gave the largest amount of husks, and No. 4 the 

 most stalks and the largest total product. 



Crop of 1860. 



Total product of the whole field, 9,848 pounds. 



