182 0^ QBAIH CEOF&. 



In 1849 I spread on twenty-five cart loads of stable manure, thir- 

 ty-five bushels to the load, and ploughed in at least eight inches 

 deep. The ground was harrowed and furrowed, the rows three feet 

 apart, the hills two and a half feet, and fifteen loads dropped in the 

 hills, the corn dropped and carefully covered. 



At the second hoeing the corn was thinned out, and only three 

 stalks left in a hill. The rows ran as near North and South, as pos- 

 sible. The corn suffered little from the drought, which I attribute 

 very much to the deep ploughing. At each hoeing, the surface of 

 the ground was kept as near a level as possible. The stalks were 

 cut about the 15th of September, and the succors were all carefully 

 cut out. 



The corn was harvested between the 20th and 25th day of Octo- 

 ber. In addition to the corn there was about fifteen bushels of po- 

 tatoes on the same land, planted in the outside rows, to protect the 

 corn. The following is the amount of labar done the present season. 

 Four days with men and two with oxen, hauling, spreading, and 

 dropping the manure in the hills. Ploughing and harrowing, one 

 man and two horses, three quarters of a day. Man and horse, four 

 hours furrowing. One man, two days planting, with boy to drop 

 the corn. One man, boy, and horse, five hours cultivating. Hoe- 

 ing, the first time, four days. One man, boy, and horse, four hours 

 ploughing between rows. Hoeing, the second time, two days' work. 

 Cutting and binding the stalks, four days' work. Harvesting, six 

 days' work. 



Yours respectfully, 



JOSHUA FOSS. 



Byfield, Nov. 8, 1849. 



P. S. November 16. I have this day shelled two bushels of 



eors of the above corn, and found the yield to be one bushel and four 



and a half quarts. 



J. FOSS. 



HENRY POOR'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Gram Crops : 



Gentlemen, — I have carefully measured one acre of corn — have 

 measured the ears and shelled a bushel basket full, and have ascer- 

 tained the exact product to be ninety-three bushels on the acre. 



