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Two acres oats, twenty bushels, injured by the drought. 



Three acres of corn, on a light and gravelly soil, were planted 

 to corn six years ago. Since then it has been used for a sheep 

 pasture. For thirty years past, when planted with corn, the 

 manure has been applied in the hill. From the whole lot, on 

 an average, when planted, it has produced fifty-five or sixty 

 bushels. 



The first of May last ploughed in twenty loads per acre of 

 coarse manure, from the barn cellar, seven inches deep. Planted 

 16th and 17th of May, rows three feet each way, with a table- 

 fspoonful of Coe's super-phosphate of lime in the hill, covering 

 the lime about half an inch with earth, before dropping the corn. 

 Many of the hills showed that the corn was too directly in con- 

 tact with the lime, from the sickly, yellow appearance, for some 

 time after it came up. In order to test the value of the lime, 

 as a fertilizer, on a given number of rows, I planted without 

 any thing in the hill, and on the same number of rows I used 

 poudrette (the same amount, in value, of the lime) half a gill 

 per hill, dropping the corn directly upon it. Through the 

 season the corn had a very healthy appearance, was more for- 

 ward than any in the field. When harvested the result was, 

 that where the poudrette was used, I had at the rate of sixty 

 bushels per acre ; the super-phosphate, fifty-two bushels ; where 

 no manure was put in the hill, fifty-two bushels. 



I am of the opinion that pasturing sheep on the lot added 

 greatly to the crop of corn. 



About the 20th of September cut the entire lot of corn, and 

 stooked it. The third week in October harvested, in good order, 

 one hundred and twenty-five bushels on the whole three acres. 



Potatoes, half an acre, had sixty bushels. Of five varieties 

 planted, we had the greatest yield from the Davis seedlings. 

 ■ Ruta-bagas, sixty rods, planted June 20tli. It was so very 

 dry, immediately after planting, the seed did not all come up. 

 Nearly one-fourth of the lot was vacant. Harvested two hun- 

 dred bushels ; some were very large, weighing nearly twenty 

 pounds. 



I also planted twenty-four rods to carrots ; for some cause 

 but a very few came up. At the last hoeing sowed the purple- 

 top English turnip. From the lot gathered fifteen bushels 

 carrots, and seventy-five bushels turnips. 



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