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ashes, and one hundred pounds of plaster, at the first hoeing. 

 Alternate rows throughout the whole field, planted in hill and 

 drill three feet apart. Hills three feet apart in the row, four 

 kernels to he left in the hill, and the stalks left nine inches 

 apart in the drills. Be particular to plant the seeds at exact 

 distances in the drill, and to leave the same number of stalks 

 in a row of drill as in a row of hill. Use Brigham corn on the 

 whole. 



Beans. — Two acres. Put three hundred pounds plaster and 

 twenty-five bushels ashes on one acre in the drill, and three 

 hundred pounds plaster only in the other. 



Veg-elables ami Sweet Cyrn. — Three acres. Use thirty cords 

 barn manure, s])read and cultivated in, and one hundred 

 bushels ashes and three hundred pounds of plaster. 



SIBLEY LOT. 



Indian Corn. — Six acres ; forty-five cords of barn manure 

 and sixty bushels ashes, and six hundred pounds plaster, mixed 

 and put in the hill. (Cutting stalks at harvesting to be con- 

 sidered hereafter.) 



Potatoes. — Eight acres green sward on Sibley lot, ploughed 

 and manured with ashes, plaster and super-phosphate of lime. 

 Two acres ashes and plaster, two acres super-phosphate and 

 plaster, two acres super-phosphate alone, and two acres ashes 

 alone, leaving a strip entirely unmaiiured. 



WARREN LOT. 



Potatoes. — Four acres, under the special care of Messrs. 

 Bartlett and Fisher to experiment on. 



Indian Corn. — Two acres. Fifteen cords barn manure broad- 

 cast and cultivated in, twenty bushels ashes and two hundred 

 pounds plaster. Use tips, middles and butts in alternate rows, 

 taking for tips three inches, or a little less than one-third of the 

 ear, and for butts three inches, and the rest use as middles. 



VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



Onions. — One acre. Six cords barnyard scrapings, fifty 

 bushels ashes, and one hundred pounds plaster on one-half of 

 it, and none on the other ; the ashes over the whole. 



