166 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Value of crop : — 



One hundred and seventy baskets of corn, 

 each weighing 45 pounds, cobs 6 * pounds, 

 corn 38|- pounds, equal to 116|- bushels, 

 ill. ip i , . • . < • • . 



Suckers, ....... 



Two tons of stalks, ..... 



Two tons of stover and husks, 



Subtract cost, 



Profit,. . . $72 95 



Milton, November 8, 1854. 



BRISTOL. 



Statement of John B. Newcomb. 



The land on which I raised my corn is a dry, loamy soil, 

 somewhat gravelly, and had lain in grass for the last eight years, 

 without any manure, except some droppings from the cattle 

 during the winter season ; it did not cut more than eight hundred 

 of hay last season. In April, 1853, carted on about two cords 

 of stable manure, and spread on the most gravelly part. 

 I ploughed the 3d of May, with one of Ruggles, Noursc, and 

 Mason's double ploughs, full eight inches deep, and then carted 

 on about six cords of manure, composed of fifty bushels of 

 leached ashes to 'four cords of swamp mud ; the other two cords 

 were principally loam and swamp mud from the hogpen, after 

 having been worked over by the hogs about one year. The 

 manure was spread evenly over the whole piece, and then har- 

 rowed and bushed in; it was then furrowed about three and 

 one-half feet apart, two inches deep, and chained across the 

 furrows, eighteen inches apart. Planted on the 6th and 7th of 

 May, three kernels in a hill. The corn is the eight-rowed yel- 

 low, sometimes called the Winncconet corn. Just before the 

 corn came up I bushed it over nicely, which gave me about a 

 week the start of the wee 1 



