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the winter — being fourteen head of cattle and thirty-three sheep 

 — and where I stabled one horse through the year, and one 

 three months. I have yarded, through the summer, on an aver- 

 age, sixteen head of cattle, and had, on an average, four hogs. 



Aretas Fobes's Statement. 



I have collected the materials of which I made compost ma- 

 nure, to the amount of four hundred and ten loads of forty 

 cubic feet each, during the last year. It is composed of muck, 

 soil, scrapings from the chip-yard and sink-drain, which were 

 composted in my barn cellars and yards with the manure from 

 the stables, where are kept horses and cattle. 



Calvin Leavitt^s Statement. 



INDIAN CORN. 



Having entered my name as a competitor for the premium 

 for the greatest crop of Indian corn on an acre, I will give you 

 a statement of the cultivation and expense of the crop. I 

 planted on sward ground ; spread on about nine cords of stable 

 manure, made the past winter; ploughed one-half, with a com- 

 mon sward plough, seven or eight inches deep ; the other half I 

 ploughed, with the Michigan plough, eleven inches deep; har- 

 rowed well ; furrowed three feet five inches one way, and drop- 

 ped the corn as near eighteen inches the other way as possible, 

 putting four corns in a hill ; which was done on the 525th and 

 26th of May. I mixed a half barrel of Mexican guano with a 

 barrel of plaster of Paris, and put a table-spoonful in each hill, 

 on two-thirds of the piece ; the other third was planted without 

 any in the hills. A cultivator was used between the rows, and 

 it was hoed twice only ; the last time about the 20th of July. 

 The corn planted was the Smutty White, or, more properly, 

 the Hill corn, as I am informed that Leonard Hill, Esq., of 

 East Bridgewater, produced it by a cross of the Sputhern 

 White with some of our Yankee corn. Expense of carting 

 and spreading manure, ^6 50. Ploughing and harrowing, 

 $3 50. Furrowing and planting, $4. Cultivating and hoeing, 

 the season, $11. Guano and plaster, $3. Total, $28. The 

 Mexican guano I used was a worthless article, as I could not 



