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The ground was measured by James Ritcliic, Esq. ; the corn 

 was measured by Mr. James M. Wentwortli ; there were one 

 hundred and five baskets ; one basket he shelled, and it meas- 

 ured thirty-two quarts. The most of the work was done by 

 the inmates belonging to the institution ; but I have charged 

 for their labor, what I think it would cost. 



I hereby certify, that on the 19th of October past, I harvested 

 and measured one acre of corn, raised on Brook Farm this 

 year: it produced one hundred and five baskets; I shelled one 

 basket, and it measured thirty-two quarts, making one hundred 

 and five bushels of shelled corn. 



James M. Wentworth. 



Brook Farm, November 12, 1853. 



I hereby certify that I have, this day, measured one acre of 

 land, on which corn was this season raised, for I. H. Meserve, 

 Esq., at Brook Farm. 



James Ritchie, Surveyor. 



"West Roxbury, October 19, 1863. 



Statement of Benjamin N. Saicin. 



The two acres of corn entered by me for premium were raised 

 on land of a sandy loam, and have been improved as a pasture 

 the last eighteen years, without any cultivation. In May, 1852, 

 the land was ploughed six inches deep, and harrowed, and 

 planted with corn. I put upon the two acres nine cords of 

 unfermented manure from my barn cellar. In applying the 

 manure, (for an experiment,) on one acre, I spread four and a 

 half cords and harrowed it in, put none in the hill ; on the next 

 acre I applied the same quantity and quality of manure in the 

 hill, and spread none. In May, 1853, I ploughed the ground 

 eight inches deep. On one acre, (the same that was spread on 

 last year,) I spread and ploughed in four and a half cords of 

 unfermented manure, put none in the hill, and furrowed with a 

 horse-plough, making the hills two feet ten inches apart each 

 way ; on the next acre I applied the same quantity and quality 

 of manure in hill, and spread none. The corn was planted the 

 20th and 21st days of May, putting four or five kernels in the 

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