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of the corn — yield of beans, five bushels. First of November I 

 shelled two baskets of ears, which weighed sixty-seven pounds. 

 Allowing fifty-six pounds to the bushel, it makes eighty-seven 

 bushels and twenty-one fifty-sixths. Corn was harvested the 

 first of October. The corn was hoed twice, the ground kept 

 level as possible. Stalks cut first of September. Amount of 

 labor, about eighteen days' work — the value of the land, seventy- 

 five dollars per acre. 

 Andovee, Not. 14, 1853. 



Amos Poor, Jrs, Statement. 



I present, for examination, one and a quarter acres of corn ;: 

 where the corn grew grass was mown in 1851 ; in 1852 it was 

 planted with corn and potatoes and was manured in hills. The 

 present year fifteen cart loads of manure to the acre were 

 ploughed in, and a small quantity of manure put in the hills ; 

 it was planted four feet between the hills each way ; planted 

 the 12th of May ; hoed three times ; harvested about the middle 

 of October, and yielded two hundred and fifty-seven baskets of 

 sound corn, weighing forty-five pounds ten ounces to the basket, 

 making the whole weight on the acre and a quarter, 11,725 

 pounds. 



West Newbury, Dec. 5, 1853. 



I hereby certify that I measured a piece of land for Amos 

 Poor, Jr., which measured two hundred rods, on which he raised 

 two hundred and fifty-seven baskets of ears of corn the present 

 year ; I also weighed one basket full of ears, which weighed, 

 exclusive of basket, forty-five pounds ten ounces. 



Samuel Rogees. 



West Newbuky, Not. 29, 1853. 



MIDDLESEX. 



Statement of Josiah Bigeloio. 



The field of corn I oifer for premium contains two acres and 

 twenty-eight rods, is sandy loam, and was in grass in 1851. 

 Ploughed in the spring of 1852 — eight or nine inches deep, 

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