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in June. Let it ripen untoppcd and standing. Commenced 

 cutting up and husking September 3d. Laid tlie corn ears on 

 a floor to dry, and when slielled, had seventy pounds of mer- 

 chantable corn to every one hundred pounds when first weighed. 

 Allowing sixty pounds to the bushel, it gives ninety-eight and 

 four-fifths bushels per acre. Weighed one hundred pounds of 

 fresh husked stover, and put it away to dry and it shrunk about 

 one-half. Also weighed one row out of thirty-seven on the 

 acre. Estimated from this that there were five thousand seven 

 hundred and thirty-five pounds dry stover to the acre. About 

 a ton of squashes grew on the same land. 



RESULT. 



98| bushels corn, $98 80 



6,785 pounds of stover, worth, at $^7 per ton, . . 20 00 

 Squashes, 8 00 



Labor, . 

 Fitting ground, 

 Harvesting, . 

 Manure, 



Profit, $67 80 



Agawam, November 1, 18G0. 



NORFOLK. 



Statement of John Sias. 



The land on which the corn was raised, which I entered for 

 a premium, contains one hundred and fifty-two rods. The soil 

 is partly a yellow and partly a slate loam. Originally very 

 rocky, it was never ploughed before last fall, when the lot was 

 reclaimed from a woody, bushy pasture. 



Last spring it was cross-ploughed, and a large quantity of 

 stones carted off. The roots and small bushes were burned on 

 the ground, and the ashes spread over the lot. The ground 

 was then harrowed, crossed out in the usual way, the rows 

 about four feet apart, the hills about three feet apart in the rows. 



