BROOMCORN. 167 



BROOM CO UN. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



Statement of F. H. Williams, of Sunderland. 



Agreeable to your secretary's request, I have measured the 

 ground and weighed the brush which grew upon the piece 

 I entered for your society's premium, and find the same 

 to contain one hundred and eighty-four rods. The brush 

 weighed, Dec. 11th, nine hundred and fourteen pounds. Tlie 

 ground has produced a crop of corn, or broomcorn, for several 

 years past. Ploughed the 1st day of May, and planted with 

 machine, three feet by two in the rows. Used compost in the 

 drills, hoed and cultivated three times. The seed got fully 

 ripe, and was harvested before frost. 



For use of land, . . . ." . . $52 79 



Statement of Leivis Parsons, of Northampton. 



The ground on which the broomcorn was raised which I 

 ofifcr for premium, measures one acre, and lies in that part of 

 the meadow called Middle Meadow Hill. The lot had been 

 mowed for three years. I ploughed it the last of April, five 

 inches deep, and planted it to broomcorn, by hand, about the 

 1st of May. I planted the hills about two and one-half feet 

 apart, each way. The only fertilizer used was hard wood 



