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Expenses. Ploughing two acres, $5 25; harrowing, $ I 25; 

 furrowing, $1 50 ; hauling manure, $5 ; twenty quarts of seed, 

 62 cents ; planting the two acres, $4 ; hoeing three times, $5 ; 

 cutting stalks, $2, 50 ; total, $25 12. 



East Bridgewater, Oct. 22, 1850. 



Dion Bryanfs Statemetit. 



The field which I enter for the premium, offered "for the 

 best field of Indian corn, of not less than three acres," contains 

 about three and a quarter acres. It was ploughed from green 

 sward, in the fall of 1848 ; it then having been in grass seven 

 years, without any manure after it was laid down. The soil is 

 principally a sandy gravel. In the spring of 1849, after harrow- 

 ing over the furrows that were ploughed in the fall, it was 

 planted to potatoes, without any manure, except a little plaster 

 in the hills. In the fall, after digging the potatoes, which was 

 rather a small crop, the land was cross ploughed with a horse, 

 and in that state left until the spring of 1850. 



I commenced drawing manure upon the lot, the 10th of 

 May, and drew on eighty horse-cartloads of twenty bushels 

 each. The manure was a compost of stable hay manure, muck, 

 and ashes, the principal part made in the summer of 1849, and 

 heaped together in the fall ; the quantity of leached ashes in it 

 was one hundred bushels. After spreading the manure as 

 evenly as it could be done, the ground was ploughed with a 

 horse about five inches deep ; it was then furrowed one way, 

 (north and south,) the furrows about four feet apart, and on the 

 18th, 19th and 21st of May, it was planted by dropping four or 

 five kernels of smutty white corn, about two feet apart in the 

 furrows ; a small handful of poudrette was scattered over the 

 corn, excepting on about half an acre, upon which was put the 

 same quantity of leached ashes and guano, at about the same 

 cost ; but the result showed that the poudrette was much the 

 most eflicacious. 



It was cultivated and weeded about the 20th of June, and a 

 small handful of guano and ashes applied upon the top of each 

 hill. The second week in July it was again cultivated, and 

 the weeds cut out between the hills, and the same process was 



