246 HAMPDEN SOCIETY. 



John M. MerricWs Statement. 



(Quantity of ground, one acre, which had been planted three 

 years in succession, and manured with seven cords of manure 

 each year. The rye was sown the first week in September, — 

 quantity 30 quarts. Product, 27 bushels, 31 quarts, and the 

 ground tolerably well stocked for another crop. 



WiLBRAHAM, 1849. 



Sardis GilletVs Statement. 



The corn I offer for premium was raised on one acre of land 

 which had lain in grass forty years or more. It was ploughed 

 in October, 1848, and in May, 1849 ; about 20 loads of green 

 stable manure were spread upon it and ploughed in. The land 

 was furrowed three feet one way, and three and a half the 

 other, and half a shovel full of earth, from under the barn, was 

 put in each hill. Planted with twelve row corn. 



The product was 23.5 bushels of ears of sound corn, and 15 

 bushels of ears of small corn. I shelled one basket of ears, and 

 it yielded more than a bushel of shelled corn to two bushels of 

 ears. I am satisfied that there were more than 120 bushels of 

 corn on the acre. 



SOUTHWICK, 1849. 



Ephraim Fentori's Statem^ent. 



I herewith send a statement of corn, raised on two acres of 

 ground the past season. The soil is of clay loam, and was 

 green sward. It was manured with forty cart loads of stable 

 manure to the acre ; the hills were two by two and a half feet 

 apart. Product, 315 bushels sound corn, and 15 bushels small 

 corn. Two bushels of ears yielded 36 quarts of shelled corn? 

 making 93 bushels per acre. 



Brim FIELD, 1849. 



