INDIAN CORN. 153 



Statement of Lewis G. Tuttle. 



The ground on which I raised my best piece of corn was 

 broken up in the fall, cross ploughed in the spring-, about twelve 

 loads to the acre of green manure being turned under. It was 

 planted about the 25th of May, and about two-thirds of a shovel 

 full of compost put in each hill. Thirty pounds of guano and 

 eight bushels of ashes were applied to the corn just after it 

 came up. The corn was hoed three times. I estimate the 

 labor of cultivating the crop at twenty-one days' work. Weight 

 in the ear, to the square rod, fifty-five pounds. Number of 

 hills, to the square rod, thirty. The variety was Tuscan white. 



FlTCHBURG, 1S54. 



Statement of Joseph Upton. 



The ground on which the acre of corn grew, which you ex- 

 amined on my farm, was mown last year, and ploughed up in 

 the fall nine or ten inches deep. Last spring it was cross 

 ploughed about the same depth. Wishing to try an experi- 

 ment with guano in raising corn, I manured that acre as fol- 

 lows : On two-thirds of it I spread twenty cartloads of manure 

 from my barn cellar, and ploughed in lightly ; on the other one- 

 third I sowed two hundred pounds of guano, and harrowed it 

 in. I then planted twenty-three hills in rows one way, with 

 corn called the Tuscan white, putting a small handful of plaster 

 and ashes in each hill. I hoed it but twice, the first time abous 

 the middle of June, the second about the first of July. 



The expense of cultivation is as follows, calling labor one 

 dollar per day : — 



Ploughing, three times, .... 



Harrowing and furrowing, 



Twenty loads of manure, 



Carting and spreading the same, 



Two hundred pounds of guano, 



Plaster and ashes, ..... 



Hoeing and ploughing twice, . 



20 * $47 00 



