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ploughed. About one third of it is a dark mould, of good 

 quality ; the remainder, is a light, dry, sandy soil. 



In November last, from sixteen to twenty tons of kelp was 

 carried on and turned under, seven inches deep. It was har- 

 rowed several times in April, to keep down the grass that 

 started from the edge of the furrows. The first and second 

 week in May, hauled on twenty loads, of forty cubic feet each, 

 of manure, from my barn-yard, where swamp mud, peat, and 

 oth«r materials, had been deposited, and on which, twenty 

 head of cattle had been wintered. This was turned under 

 with the plough, four inches deep, and harrowed three times. 



On the 14th of May, planted the Whitman corn, in rows, 

 three feet apart ; three corns in a hill, eighteen inches apart. 

 Cultivated and hoed twice, leaving the ground level. At the 

 first hoeing, about one gill of phospate of lime and ashes, pre- 

 pared with oil of vitriol, was put around the hills, excepting 

 about one rod across the middle of the field. There has been 

 in no stage of its growth, any perceptible difference where this 

 was applied, from where it was not. At the second hoeing, a 

 handful of peat mud, in which menhaden fish had been com- 

 posted the previous summer, was j)ut around the hill. ' 



We ditfer so much as to the cost of manure that we make, 

 that I have not estimated that in the expense of the crop. Mr. 

 Littlejohn makes it for twenty-five cents a load, while mine 

 cost me, at least, one dollar. The cost of the droppings of my 

 cattle, 1 cannot estimate. 



Ploughing, |4; cross ploughing, $2 ; harrowing, $2 ; plant- 

 ing, $4; hoeing and cultivating twice, $10; total, $22. 



Oct. 18. The supervisor gathered two rods from different 

 parts of the field, which weighed 108 pounds, which, at 85 

 pounds to the bushel, is 101 ^f bushels to the acre. 



The two acres entered by me for premium on Indian corn, 

 is high, dry, sandy soil, with a subsoil of loose sand. It has 

 been a cow pasture for about forty years in succession. During 

 the winter and spring, I carried on to it kelp, sixteen or twenty 

 tons to the acre. The first week in April, it was ploughed 

 seven inches deep. Carried on thirty-six loads of forty cubic feet 

 each of compost, from the barn-yard, where I had put, the pre- 



