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started. My men who worked for me thought I had better turn 

 it all in and sow some barley. I went up and looked at it, and 

 concluded to let it grcJw and come to what it would. There 

 were a great many hills that did not come at all ; some had 

 one stalk, some two or three, some five, and some six. I 

 let them all stand and make what they would. I did not 

 adopt flat cultivation ; the corn was hilled, and it was hoed 

 twice, and cultivated both ways with a cultivator. That is 

 the length and breadth of the cultivation. It was cut up 

 from the bottom, and we have just husked it out. It was 

 shocked up and stood in the field until towards the latter part 

 of November. From the acre and a half we had two hun- 

 dred and ten baskets of sound corn, and some twelve baskets 

 of soft and poor corn. That makes, as we usually estimate, 

 seventy bushels of sound shelled corn to the acre. Many 

 of the stalks bore three ears, a great many two, of good, 

 well cured, sound corn, and there was a great stand of 

 stover. I don't know how much I should have had if it had 

 all come up well. I ought to say that I used a very small 

 amount of Stockbridge fertilizer in the hill. 



Mr. Wheeler of Great Barrington. I was a little sur- 

 prised at the answer Mr. Goddard gave to the question 

 asked him by Mr. Ware, I think, in regard to the maturity 

 of this corn, — whether it was ripening earlier under his 

 cultivation. Having been brought originally from Canada, 

 further north, I was surprised to hear him say that it ripened 

 earlier now than when he commenced with it. Am I right ? 



Mr. Goddard. I would like to say that I procured this 

 seed from a farmer in this town, who said he had grown it 

 for tbirt}' years. 



Mr. Wheeler. That was so at variance with the nature 

 of the plant and with my own observation that I wanted to 

 get some explanation of it, if it was really a fact. But with 

 the explanation I consider it thoroughly acclimated corn 

 when he took hold of it. 



Mr. Grtnnell. Before any more members of the Board 

 go I desire to oflfer a resolution : — 



' ' That the members of the Board of Agriculture desire 

 at this time to express their satisfaction at the success of this 

 meeting, and their thanks to those citizens of the town who 



