SECRETARY'S REPORT. 93 



Another lot of three acres, had, hitherto, been lightly 

 manured. Ten cords of reservoir compost were applied, and 

 it was planted with Connecticut River corn, and produced 210 

 bushels of long, full ears of corn. 



Three and a fourth acres of land manured with 8| cords of 

 best barn cellar compost per acre, spread and ploughed in, and 

 planted May 23 with King Philip corn, yielded 273 bushels of 

 ears of corn, or 84 bushels of ears per acre. The stalks were 

 small and the corn ripened early. 



Another lot of seven acres of old pasture was manured with 

 300 pounds of guano per acre, planted May 20 and 21 with 

 Brigham corn and produced 607 bushels of ears of corn, or 

 86| bushels of ears per acre, manure never having been applied 

 to this land. 



Two acres manured with piggery compost, 6| cords per acre, 

 spread, ploughed in, all furrowed three feet apart one way, and 

 one acre four feet apart the other way ; the other, eighteen 

 inches. On the former acre five stalks stood in a hill, and the 

 other, three. Both were planted the same day, one with a hoe 

 and the other with Randall's corn planter ; both hoed three 

 times. The corn was all good ; that produced on that part 

 of the field planted four feet apart one way was better filled 

 and every way superior to the other. 



Of the thirty -five acres of corn, twenty-four were cut up and 

 stooked, eleven topped ; and in every lot, says the farmer, the 

 corn was better with the former mode of harvesting than the 

 latter. 



The corn was all measured in the ear. 



The following statements exhibit the results produced by the 

 application of the various fertilizers to the same land, on the 

 corn crops, for the years 1854 and 1855. 



Corn on the Plain, six lots of one acre each. 



No. Bush, of ears per acre. 



1. Reservoir manure, ......... 87 



2. and 3. Guano, 72 



4. Mapes' super-phosphate, 85 



5. De Burg's super-phosphate, 101 



6. Bones, ground, 90 



Expense of fertilizers per acre, 1854, $10 00 



