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fair sound corn — and twenty-four baskets of ordinary quality. 

 T estimate the produce to have been one hundred and twenty- 

 three bushels of corn. 

 Danvers, Oct. 6, 1851, 



Paul P. Pillsbury^s Statement. 



I submit the following facts, relating to the cultivation of a 

 mixed crop of corn and beans, on my farm in Andover. The 

 crop which I offer for premium, was the produce of one acre. 

 The land was broken up in the fall of 1849, and planted in 

 1850, with corn. Twenty common cart loads of manure 

 spread on to the acre. Crop about fifty bushels per acre. 



In the spring of 1851, there were fifteen cart loads of barn man- 

 ure spread to the acre and ploughed in ; then the land was har- 

 rowed, furrowed, and manured with eight cart loads of compost 

 manure to the acre. On the twentieth of May, I planted with 

 the Golden Sioux corn, with from three to four kernels to the 

 hill, and the same number of beans. Hills three and a half feet 

 apart each way. Hoed twice. The stalks cut first of Septem- 

 ber. Corn harvested first week in October, and the crop was 

 one hundred and forty-one and a half baskets, full of ears of 

 corn, weighing forty-one pounds to the basket, and one basket 

 full, of equal weight and measure, kept until the first of Nov- 

 ember, gave eighteen quarts of shelled corn. The corn when 

 harvested was sound and dry, a sample of which was presented 

 at the Cattle Show in September. There were six bushels of 

 white beans on the acre. 



The following is the amount of labor done this season upon 

 this crop. Two men and one yoke of oxen, one day and a 

 half hauling and dropping manure, one man and one yoke of 

 oxen one day ploughing and furrowing, one man and a boy 

 one day planting, hoeing twice, five days labor, cutting and 

 binding stalks two days labor, harvesting corn and beans, seven 

 days labor. 



The soil is a brown loam. Land valued at fifty dollars per 

 acre. 



Andover, Nov. 3, 1851. 



