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hutts, I would thank them. I have been advised to sell them 

 for "cord wood ;" they are unproiitably large for fodder. 



About half of my soil was sward land ; the other had been 

 three years in corn. I could not say which was best. I ma- 

 nured, and ploughed in, — also, manured in the hill. At weed- 

 ing time, I applied a handful of ashes to the hill. Planted 

 three and a half feet one way, and two and three-quarter feet 

 the other way. My manure was all made in a barn cellar ; 

 which, in my humble judgment, — with the working of swine 

 amongst it, the saving of all the urine of the stock, and the 

 saving of evaporatio?i, — mixed with loam, or muck, makes it 

 worth thirty-three and a third per cent, more, than if suffered 

 to lie in an out door exposure, subject to drying winds and 

 washing rains. 



My practical experience in farming has been small, but what 

 little I do know, induces the belief, that a little good farming pays 

 better, and gives more satisfaction, than a large amount of poor 

 farming. Make one acre, well manured, do the work of two, 

 half manured, — how much labor would be saved ? 



In seed time, it was not my purpose, or thought, to offer a 

 crop of corn for premium ; but the harvest justifies me in so 

 doins. And should I fail to meet the views of the committee, 

 it would not deter me in the effort of good cultivation. 



North Andover, 1849. 



Daniel Pnt7iani's Statement. 



The amount of corn raised by me, from one acre of land, 

 the present season, is not so large as I have before raised, yet it 

 may be entitled to your favor. The land upon which it grew, 

 is a light, loamy soil, having a level surface. It has been 

 used, for some previous years, in the cultivation of carrots and 

 onions. Last year, it was enriched with compost manure, using 

 about seven cords to the acre. The portion sowed for onions, 

 produced at the rate of two hundred and seventy-five bushels 

 to the acre ; that for carrots, at five hundred and fifty bushels 

 per acre. On the first of May last, three and a half cords of 



