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Deducting the proceeds of thirteen rods, it gives forty-four 

 striked bushels to the acre, and by weight forty-six and three- 

 quarter bushels, which amounted to about seventy dollars per 

 acre, 



SOMERVILLE, Dec. 17, 1851. 



John Hayward* s Statement. 



I offer for premium a crop of eighty-four and three-quarters 

 bushels of sound Indian corn, raised on one hundred and fifty- 

 four rods of land, it being all of the piece planted. The soil is 

 a dark loam, sloping slightly to the southeast. The corn 

 planted is of the small, early, eight rowed kind. The ground 

 was broken up in October, 1849, about nine inches in depth. 

 May 1st, I cross ploughed and spread ten cart loads of manure 

 from my barn cellar, and harrowed it in. About the middle of 

 May, I planted with corn, which yielded about seventy bushels. 



May, 1851, the hills were split, and twelve loads of manure 

 spread thereon and the land cross ploughed at the depth of 

 seven inches. May 12th, furrowed one way only ; put in the 

 hills eight loads of compost manure, which was made fine by 

 being twice thrown over in the spring. May 12th and 13th. 

 the ground was planted, three feet ten inches one way, and 

 about two feet eight inches the other. Hoed three times ; at 

 each time used a small harrow made for the purpose, and raised 

 the ground about the corn only a little. The second week in 

 October the corn was cut up and harvested. 



AsHBY, Jan. 2, 1852. 



Carrots. — My crop of carrots was raised upon twenty-seven 

 and three-quarters rods of land. It is a strong, deep soil, on 

 which I have raised carrots five years in succession. After har- 

 vesting them in the fall of 1850, I spread six loads of barn cel- 

 lar manure and ploughed it in. Ploughed again in the spring, 

 as deep as possible, raked the ground over and sowed with a 

 machine in drills one foot apart, half a pound white and half a 

 pound orange seed. Hoed as soon as they were up so as to be 

 seen. When the carrots are two or three inches high, I weed 



