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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



basket of 1| bushels. Weight, 68 pounds on the ear and 57 

 shelled. 



The respective result in yield was as follows : — 



Corn, bush. Beans, bush. 



Of the above number, Zell's and Quinnippiac arrived so 

 late that they could not go in on the two acres, but were put 

 in a piece adjoining with the same preparation of soil. 



The prime benefit or good result derived from the use of 

 these valuable fertilizers this year, was in bringing forward 

 an early ripening of the corn and beans, there being no soft 

 corn in the whole lot and only three bushels of mouldy "nub- 

 bins" in. almost two hundred, so that we decided that the use 

 of them is of great service and of real value as a "stimulant," 

 especially in our short season, when Jack Frost puts in his 

 appearance as early as the last of September. 



D. O. FisK. 



