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ceding summer, a large quantity of swamp mud, peat, and 

 other material, and on which, twenty head of cattle had been 

 wintered. This was turned under with the plough, four inches 

 deep, — harrowed three times. On the 15th and 16th of May, 

 planted the Whitman corn, in rows, three feet apart : three 

 corn? in a hill, two feet apart. On one-fourth of an acre, I put 

 about one gill of phosphate of lime and ashes in a hill, prepared 

 as follows: — to one hundred pounds of phosphate, put forty 

 pounds of sulphuric acid, diluted with twelve gallons of water. 

 Stand three days, then mixed with ten bushels of ashes. 



I have not been able to perceive any benefit from this appli- 

 cation, to the stalk or ear, at any period of this growth. The 

 whole field had a rapid and great growth of stalk, which was 

 much heavier, and eared higher, than this variety generally 

 does. The stalk was weak in this and my other field, and 

 much of it fell before harvest. It was cultivated, and hoed 

 twice. At the second hoeing, a handful of peat mud, in which 

 menhaden fish had been composted the summer previous, was 

 put around the hills. October 18th, the supervisor weighed 

 two rods, taken from different parts of the field, which weighed 

 52| pounds to the rod, which, at 85 pounds to the bushel, is 

 9814 bushels. 



Expense — Ploughing, $8; cross ploughing, $4; harrowing, 

 $3; planting, $10; hoeing twice, $11 ; cultivating, $2; total, 

 $38. 



The phosphate and ashes cost 3 75, exclusive of the labor 

 of mixing and applying. The manure we differ in as to the 

 value or cost of making, as well as the proportion consumed 

 by the crop, which the most experienced can judge best. 

 Some competitors put the ploughing of an acre at two dollars. 

 I cannot plough an acre, with a double team and two men, for 

 less than four dollars. 



DuxBURY, Oct. 27, 1851. 



Speiicer Leonard, Jr^s Statement. 



Having entered my name as a competitor for the premium 

 for the greatest crop of Indian corn on an acre, I will give a 

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