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My whole field was a little rising three acres, and the corn is uni- 

 formly as large as the measured acre. It suffered very little from 

 drought. A few hills in a dry corner were rolled ; many of the 

 spindles were nine and a half and ten feet high. If any of the 

 Committee will inform me how to dispose of the butts, 1 would thank 

 them. I have been advised to sell them for " cord wood ; " they 

 are unprofitably large for fodder. 



About half of my soil was sward land ; the other had been three 

 years in corn. T could not say which was best. I manured and 

 ploughed in — also manured in the hill. At weeding time I applied 

 a handful of ashes to the hill. Planted three and a half feet one 

 way, and two and three-quarter feet the other way. My manure 

 was all made in a barn cellar ; which, in my humble judgment, with 

 the working of swine amongst it, the saving of all the urine of the 

 stock, and the saving of evaporation, mixed with loam or muck, 

 makes it worth thirty-three and a third per cent, more than if suf- 

 fered to lie in an out of door exposure, subject to drying winds and 

 washing rains. 



My practical experience in farming has been small, but what little 

 I do know induces the belief that a little good farming pays better 

 and gives more satisfaction, than a large amount of poor farming. 

 Make one acre, well manured, do the work of two, half manured — 

 how much labor would be saved ? 



In seed time, it was not my purpose or thought to offer a crop of 

 corn for premium ; but the harvest justifies me in so doing. And 

 should I fail to meet the views of the Committee, it would not deter 

 me in the effort of good cultivation. 



Very respectfully, 

 North Andover, 1849. 



HENRY POOR. 



DANIEL PUTNAM'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Grain Crops : 



Gentlemen, — The amount of Corn raised by me from one acre of 

 land the present season is not so large as I have before raised, yet 

 it may be entitled to your favor. The land upon which it grew is 

 of a light, loamy soil, having a level surface. It has been used, for 



