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spring I harrowed, and put on five loads of barnyard manure, 

 which I harrowed in. I planted about the 18th of May, and 

 then manured in the hill, with ten loads of compost, made of 

 five loads of yard manure, ten bushels of lime, and 150 lbs. of 

 plaster. I hoed three times. About the 15th of September 

 the corn was cut and stacked in the field. It was harvested 

 early in October, and the yield was 180| bushels in the ear, 

 weighing S5 lbs. to the bushel. 



VALUE OF CROP. 



The crop, equal to 90 bushels, shelled, at 75 cents 



per bushel, $67 50 



Fodder, two tons, 10 00 



$77 50 



35 75 



Net profit on one acre, 



$41 75 



William P. Dickinson'' s Statement. 

 I herewith send you a statement of one acre of Indian corn. 

 This acre is part of a field of eight acres which has been pas- 

 tured a number of years, and had become cold and mossy. In 

 the fall of 1851 I ploughed it seven inches deep, and sent a 

 sample of it to Prof. Norton, to analyze. He found it very de- 

 ficient in lime, chlorine and sulphuric acid, and advised an ap- 

 plication of lime, plaster and salt. Last spring I spread and 

 harrowed in eight loads of compost manure to the acre, and 

 made a mixture of four parts lime, one of plaster, one and one- 

 half pounds of salt to the acre, and put a handful of the mix- 

 ture in each hill, at planting. It was hoed twice, and cut up 



