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to 16th of May ; June 10th, ploughed two furrows in a row, as 

 near as I could to the corn and not start the roots, soon after it 

 came up, turning the dirt from the corn, leaving a ridge several 

 days to warm. June 20th, it was again ploughed, one furrow 

 in a row, splitting the ridge made by the first ploughing, and 

 then hoed leaving the ground level. July 3d and 4th, it was 

 again hoed and weeds killed ; 27th, went over with a hoe and 

 killed the weeds that escaped the last hoeing. September 12th 

 and 13th, cut stalks. Expense — ploughing, $5 50 ; harrowing 

 and furrowing, $2 75; hauling manure, .^4 75 ; seed, 62 cents; 

 planting 2,1 acres, $5 25 ; ploughing and hoeing, $5 75; weed- 

 ing, 75 cents ; cutting stalks, $2 75 — Total, $2S 12. 

 East Bridgewater, Oct. 20, 1851. 



Adin Alger^s Statement. 



That part of the field on which the corn grew, contains 

 about three and one quarter acres of land. It was ploughed 

 from greensward in the fall of 1849, and planted with potatoes 

 the next season. I spread forty loads of manure on the lot and 

 harrowed it in ; I also used plaster on the potatoes. After the 

 crop was taken off, the land was ploughed. The soil is princi- 

 pally a sandy loam. On the 1st of May, I commenced carting 

 on barn yard manure, to the amount of eighty-four ox-cart 

 loads, and spread it as evenly as possible on the lot. I then 

 ploughed it six* inches deep with a pair of horses ; furrowed 

 east and west about three and a half feet apart, and planted the 

 15th of May. One half the piece was planted with a kind of 

 flesh-colored corn, the other half with seed called smutty white. 

 It was cultivated and hoed twice in June and once in July. 

 Expenses of crop as follows — carting manure, $15; spreading 

 do., $2; ploughing, $6 ; furrowing and planting, $3 ; hoeing, 

 S12 ; cultivating, $3 ; five pecks seed corn, $1 25 — Total, 

 $42 25. 



Bridgewater, Oct. 10, 1851. 



* Six inches is not deep enough for any crop ; eight or ten inches is the least for a premi- 

 um crop. 



