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statement of the cultivation and expenses of the crop. The 

 land was planted to corn last year and produced a heavy crop. 

 About the middle of May this year. I spread eighty bushels of 

 leached ashes, (cost twelve and a half cents per bushel) and 

 about seven cords of good manure, and ploughed them in. 

 One half was ploughed about seven or eight inches deep, and 

 the other half was subsoiled ; the plough going about ten or 

 eleven inches deep ; harrowed well and furrowed ; planted the 

 19th of May, three feet five inches apart one way and half that 

 distance the other, four corns in a hill. After planting, there 

 was a medium sized teacup full of leached ashes applied to each 

 hill. A cultivator was used between the rows, and it was hoed 

 three times, the last time the 25th of July. The corn planted 

 was smutty white, and was selected at the time of husking the 

 last year's crop, care being taken to select ripe, fair, and well- 

 filled ears. Expenses — carting and spreading manure, f 7 ; do. 

 ashes, $2 50 ; ploughing, $2 50 ; harrowing and furrowing, ^1 

 50; planting, $3 ; cultivating and hoeing for the season, $7 ; 

 seed corn 40 cents — Total, f 23 90. The stalks were cut about 

 the 20th of September. I consider the corn fodder to pay for 

 cutting the stalks and harvesting. 

 Bridgewater, Oct. 21, 1851. 



Leonard HilVs Statement. 



The land I entered for the best crop of Indian corn on two 

 acres — one acre and a half had been in grass for several years. 

 I cut about half a ton of hay to the acre last year ; the reuiain- 

 der was planted last year to corn. In 1851 it was planted 1st 

 of May, I then harrowed it ; 10th, furrowed it one way three 

 feet and six inches apart, and in these furrows were put fifty 

 horse loads, (about nine cords) of good stable and barn manure. 

 from the pile that had been kept about four weeks ; most of it 

 was made last winter by cattle, horses, hogs, &c. On this ma- 

 nure I dropped three kernels in a hill, about two feet apart, 

 using twenty-one quarts of seed. The kind was eight-rowed 

 white (sometimes called the smutty white corn). The seed 

 was selected last fall, from the best stalks. Planted from 1 1th 



