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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Statement of Benjamin Wyman. 



The acre of land on which I raised the crop of Indian corn 

 entered for premium the present year is of a gravelly soil, and 

 was planted last year, partly with corn and partly with pota- 

 toes. It was manured with about twenty-five loads to the 

 acre. The present year I spread thirty-five loads of winter 

 manure, and dropped fifteen loads of compost manure in the 

 hill, to the acre, twenty-five bushels to the cartload. I ploughed 

 the land twice, and planted it on the 23d and 24th days of 

 May. It was hoed but twice. 



The expense of cultivating the acre is as follows : — 



Fifty loads manure, $50 00 



Carting and spreading the same, . . . . 10 00 



Ploughing twice, man and oxen, . . . . 4 00 



Harrowing and furrowing, ..... 1 00 



Two days' planting, ...... 2 00 



Hoeing and ploughing twice, ..... G 00 



Deduct two-thirds for manure not exhausted, 



$73 00 

 33 66 



$39 34 



Yield, forty and and one-half pounds to the square rod, each 

 rod containing thirty-eight hills. 



Westminster, 1854. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



Statement of Austin L. Clark. 



The piece of corn I oiTer for premium contains one acre of 

 land. It was an old pasture, that was never ploughed within 

 the memory of the " oldest inhabitant." In May I ploughed it 

 about six inches deep, turning in ten loads of barn-yard manure. 

 I then harrowed in eight loads of compost manure. On the 

 26th of May it was planted. Eight bushels of leached ashes 

 were dropped in the hill. The corn was hoed twice. The 



