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I plowed under. I treated both pieces just alike. The corn 

 was planted iu hills three feet and a half apart, and the 

 result Avas, that on the piece where the manure was plowed 

 under I got seventy-five l)ushels of shelled corn to the acre ; 

 on the piece where I put on the manure and cultivated it in 

 I had seventy-two bushels to the acre. I shocked that fod- 

 der and weighed it on the 21st day of November. I had on 

 the piece of ground where the manure was plowed in 7,680 

 pounds of fodder ; on the piece of ground where the manure 

 was cultivated in I had G,700 and some odd pounds. I fig- 

 ured the corn at just what I could buy it for delivered on 

 the wharf at our place, and I figured the fodder at eight 

 dollars a ton. I presume that after that time the fodder 

 would have shrunk more or less, because where we are pro- 

 ducing that amount of corn there is a good deal of moisture 

 in the stalk, which it takes a long; while to jjet out. The 



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result was,jifter charging all the expense of plowing and 

 cultivation, and charging the crop with twenty-five loads of 

 manure, at one dollar a load, the balance of the manure 

 being charged back to the land, I had sixteen dollars and 

 some odd cents profit on one acre, and ten dollars and some 

 odd cents on the other. That was the result of my experi- 

 ence in corn culture this year. 



The Chairman. Perhaps Mr. Brimblecomb of Barre can 

 tell us something about his success with corn this year. 



Mr. Brimblecomb. My experience in the management 

 of corn is not very extensive, so far as this present season 

 is concerned. I had a small piece of ground last year in 

 potatoes, just half an acre, I suppose ; I had a piece of 

 green sward adjoining which I wished to break up for the 

 purpose of working out some foul matter that had got into 

 it. That was, perhaps, about an acre ; making an acre 

 and a half in the whole. That green sward I broke up and 

 put upon it about thirty loads of stable manure, got some 

 seed from Mr. Goddard of his small corn, and planted it 

 about the 25th of May on the green sward. I spread the 

 manure after it was l)roken up, cultivated it in with a wheel 

 harrow very thoroughly ; and the corn, I thought, was not 

 coming up. Finally it began to come out of the ground, 

 but very late. It was several weeks before it fairly got 



