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perhaps, was ever witnessed in tins neigliborliood ; and, up to 

 the first of August, I despaired of having much else ; but it came 

 on very rapidly the last of the season, and matured quite well, 

 considering the large growth of stalk. As we supposed there 

 would be less than first field, (of two acres twent3'-eight and 

 a half rods,) the committee did not take the pains to ascertain 

 the quantity as they did the first field reported, but cut up and 

 shelled four square rods in one place according to my desire — 

 not to take the trouble of going over the field and take sepa- 

 rate rods as in the other field — but it so happened that I gath- 

 ered that field first, and to give place in my barn it was husked 

 and measured, and the result of sound corn two hundred and 

 seventy-six bushels, beside some thirty bushels of soft corn, 

 making between one hundred and ninety-three and one hundred 

 and ninety-four bushels of ears to the acre of sound corn. 



You will allow me to say that it was not my intention in 

 planting this corn to offer for premium, and that I have not 

 kept any very minute account of all the expenses attending, 

 but would say, according to the best of my knowledge, that 

 cost of labor and worth and cost of manure is about the same 

 in this place as it is in other sections of our county, the same 

 distance from Boston, say from twenty to thirty miles, and pre- 

 fer to leave it to others to run out the calculation of profit 

 or loss, as shall best suit their own ideas, from the items I 

 have given in this report. 



Groton, 1853. 



The undersigned certify that they gathered and measured the 

 corn grown upon four square rods of land, of a lot which meas- 

 ures two acres and twenty-eight and a half rods, and found the 

 yield to be at the rate of one hundred and six bushels per acre. 

 The undersigned also gathered and measured the corn 

 grown upon four square rods of land of another lot, which 

 measures one acre and sixty-eight rods, and found the yield at 

 the rate of eighty bushels per acre. 



Said corn was raised by Josiah Bigelow, Esq., and gathered 

 on the day of October. 



Geo. S. Boutwell. 

 J. S. Adams. 

 Wm. Shattuck. 



