44 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



Wing-ate MerrilVs Statement. 

 I offer for premium a crop of Indian corn, grown on one 

 hundred and sixty-two rods of land, the soil good. It was 

 broken up in the fall of 1850. In the spring of 1851 it was 

 dunged in the hill, and planted with corn, and yielded about 

 seventy bushels. In November last, I put on about four and 

 a half cords of barn manure, and ploughed it in. In the spring 

 it was well harrowed, and planted the 25th and 26th of May, 

 in hills, about three and one-half feet apart. The corn was 

 well cultivated. Weeds were not permitted to grow. It was 

 gathered in October last, and yielded one hundred and seventy- 

 four bushels of sound corn. I estimated the product to be 

 eighty-seven bushels. 



Danvers, Nov. 11, 1852. 



WiNGATE Merrill. 



Adino Pace's Statement. 



I offer for premium a crop of Indian corn, grown on two 

 acres and twenty-five rods. The soil is shallow and gravelly. 

 In the summer of 1851 we obtained about one ton of poor 

 hay from this land. The 1st of October following, we put on 

 nine cords of compost manure from our hog-yard, and ploughed 

 it in, seven inches deep. In the spring it was cross ploughed, 

 and well pulverized with the harrow. It was planted the 18th 

 of May, in drills, the stalks standing ten inches apart, the rows 

 four feet apart, and running north and south — the better to 

 admit the rays of the sun. The corn was well cultivated — 

 weeds were not permitted in the field. It was gathered in 

 October last, and yielded two hundred and eighty-six bushels 

 of ears of corn. I estimate the produce to have been one hun- 

 dred and forty -three bushels of corn. 



^ Adino Page. 



Danvers, Nov. 6, 1852. 



Isaac Smithes Statement. 



I offer for your consideration and for premium, a crop of 

 barley, of sixty bushels, which I raised on one acre forty-eight 

 and a half rods of land, from two and a half bushels of seed. 

 The land was last year to cabbages, and in a common, ordi- 

 nary state, and of the value of about fifty dollars per acre. 



