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a fair criterin of their usual crops. The statements that have 

 come before us, show, at least, skill and judgment in pro- 

 ducing great crops, which it would be both wise and profitable 

 for our farmers to imitate. 



JOS I AH FOGG, Chairman. 



D. Sf H. Wells's Statement. 



We broke up a piece of grass land the 10 of May ; spread 

 about twenty-five cart loads of green manure to the acre, which 

 was well dragged in. Then manured in the hill with green 

 manure, about ten cartloads to the acre. A little plaster was 

 sprinkled on the manure before planting. Planted the corn the 

 20th of May, hills three feet apart each way. Hoed three 

 times. It was cut up the latter part of September, and har- 

 vested the last of October and first of November. The result 

 was 105 baskets full of sound corn, on 172 rods of land. 

 Spread some of the corn on the corn-house floor to dry. Shelled 

 one basket full the first of December ; it contained one bushel, 

 three pints to one basket, which will make 109 bushels, 3 

 pecks, 5 quarts or 102 bushels, 7 quarts, 1 pint, on an acre. 



Shelburne_, December, 1850. 



Austin Hice^s Statement. 



I submit the following statement of the produce of an acre 

 of corn, raised on my farm the past season. The soil is a stiff, 

 heavy loam, not well adapted to raising corn, a thick grass 

 sod, turned under in autumn of 1848. The field was planted 

 with corn in 1849. Eight cartloads of compost manure put in 

 the hills. Last spring, twenty-two loads of long manure were 

 ploughed in. and eight loads of compost put in the hills; plant- 

 ed the first week in June ; the rows three feet four inches apart, 

 hills two feet six inches ; hoed three times, a cultivator used at 

 each hoeing. Care was taken to destroy all weeds, and to 

 keep the surface as level as possible. The ground was very 

 wet when planted, and for some weeks after, which seriously 

 injured the crop. Top stalks cut the last of September ; the 

 bottom stalks, with the corn, cut up the 8th of November. 

 Produce, eighty-four bushels. The compost put in the hill, 



