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five times tliat of ■wheat; sec the figures used: — 100,479,150 

 bushels wheat, and 592,141,230 of corn; of which Massachu- 

 setts gives but 31,221 of wheat, and 2,345,490 of corn. These 

 figures suggest material for many remarks which might be 

 offered, but we leave them, with all their importance, to the 

 consideration of those who think for themselves. In present- 

 ing the statement of our only competitor on this crop, we may 

 be permitted to remark, that, having a personal acquaintance 

 with him and his accuracy in all the details of his agricultural 

 pursuits, we derive much pleasure in presenting his successful 

 results to the public, through our medium, and earnestly do we 

 indulge the hope that his statement will stimulate many to 

 excel him in the field of his success. 



/. C. Parsons^ Statement. 



I wish to ofi'er for premium the corn which I have raised this 

 season, upon sixteen acres of land. Four acres of this was 

 planted to corn last year, and for which I received a premium 

 from your society ; the rest of it had been in grass for three 

 years, and produced about two tons of hay to the acre. In 

 May last, two hundred and fifty-four loads of stable manure, 

 equal to one hundred and twenty-seven cords, was spread upon 

 this land and ploughed under. It was also manured in the hill 

 with compost, made from hog manure, muck, ashes, and sizing, 

 and planted three and a half feet apart each way. It was culti- 

 vated and hoed three times, and, after the first hoeing, it had a 

 handful upon each hill of ashes, plaster and hen manure mixed. 



The yield was 2,512 bushels of ears, equal to 1,256 bushels 

 of shelled corn, or 78 bushels to the acre. I have weighed 

 and shelled one basket of the corn, (one and a half bushels,) 

 which weighed as follows : — corn, fifty-one pounds ; cobs, six- 

 teen pounds; both, sixty-seven pounds; one-half bushel of 

 shelled corn weighed thirty pounds. 



I estimate the cost and value of the crop as follows : — 



1,256 bushels corn, at 90 cents, . . $1,130 40 

 Corn fodder, at $10 per acre, . . 160 00 



-$1,290 40 



