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I cut twenty-seven hills, which were no more than an average 

 with the rest of the field, husked and shelled the ears, and 

 found that they yielded twenty-one quarts of corn, which 

 weighed forty-two pounds, being about one hundred bushels to 

 the acre. 



Pepperkll. 



Daniel L. Gileses Statement. 



The stock of my farm consists of twenty cows, four oxen, 

 one horse, and six swine in winter ; twelve cows and one yoke 

 of oxen in summer. I have no barn cellar. My manure is all 

 made in the yard. In the fall of 1848, after clearing out all 

 the manure, I carted into the barn yard, one hundred and 

 twenty-five loads of mostly mud, taken from the ditching of 

 my meadow. I carted into the hog yard, eighty loads of mud 

 and loam. I also put under the stable floors, twenty-five loads 

 of sods and loam, taken from the borders of a plough field. 

 In April, 1849, 1 carted out, one hundred and seventeen loads 

 of manure, that was made from the stock during the winter. 

 In May, I commenced ploughing the compost in the barn yard, 

 and where it was too deep, I turned it with a fork and shovel. 

 This was done twice in a month, until the last of August. 

 The manure was then taken from the hog yard, and put with 

 the compost in the barn yard, where it remained in a heap till 

 the first of October, when it was carted out and put upon my 

 grass land ; by an accurate account, there were two hundred 

 and seventy-one loads. This, with the one hundred and seven- 

 teen loads carted out in the spring, makes three hundred and 

 eighty-eight loads made within the year. It is the opinion of 

 good judges, that there were between fifty and sixty cords in 

 the compost heap in the yard, of an excellent quality. 



Lincoln. October. 1849. 



William Parker^s Statement. 

 I commenced making my manure under my barn, about the 

 first of November, 1848. After clearing out all I had on hand, 



