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Planted May 12-15, 

 First hoeing, June 1-5, . 

 Second hoeing, June 20-25, 

 July 5-15, third hoeing, . 



Half value of manure, ..... 



Total expense, $219 00 



Tops and stover for the harvesting ; 1,193 

 bushels of sound ears ; shelled corn, 596 

 bushels, at 11.25 per bushel, . . $747 50 



Sixty-five bushels of poor corn, . . 24 25 



Sixty-seven bushels potatoes, 75 cents per 

 bushel, 50 25 



Two bushels of white beans, . . . 5 00 



827 00 



Profit, $608 00 



This field was marked three feet eight inches apart each way, 

 thinned out four in a hill. Pulled off the suckers middle of 

 July. Manure well, and do likewise, and you will raise good 

 corn. Patrick McMahon. 



PLYMOUTH. 



Abstract of Statements. 



Indian Corn. — Albert Thomas, of Middleborough. From the 

 statement of Mr. Thomas, duly filed, it appears that the land on 

 which he raised his corn crop in 1868, (the experiment not 

 having been completed at the time of making up the last annual 

 report,) measured one hundred and sixty-seven square rods, of 

 dark, sandy loam ; in grass, without manure, in 1866 and 1867 ; 

 fifty loads, of thirty bushels each, of barnyard manure ploughed 

 in, in April, 1868 ; the ground harrowed and furrowed three 

 feet by three and one-half feet apart ; planted. May 30, with 

 Whitman corn ; cultivated three times and hoed twice ; har- 

 vested about November 1. Product, 182 basketfuls of ears, 



