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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



cultivated and hoed three times. It was planted too far apart. 

 The cultivation, charging but half the manure to the crop, 

 cost twenty-five dollars, harvesting included. 



MlDDLEBOK.0', 1854. 



Statement of Daniel Alden. 



Having entered my name as a competitor for the premium 

 offered by you for the best field of Indian corn of not less than 

 three acres, I now proceed to give an account of my manage- 

 ment and expenses. The field upon which the corn grew con- 

 tains about three and one-fourth acres of land ; it was ploughed 

 from greensward in the fall of 1853, it then having been in 

 grass five years, without any manure after it was laid down. 

 The soil is a sandy loam. I commenced drawing manure about 

 the first of May, and drew on thirty-nine cartloads, of thirty- 

 five bushels each, which I put in the hill. I then furrowed it 

 three feet six inches apart, and on the 10th planted it with 

 flesh-colored and yellow corn, putting five kernels in a hill ; it 

 was cultivated and weeded out about the 20th of June, and then 

 cultivated twice after. 



Profit, 



$55 00 



Statement of Amasa Howard. 



Being a candidate for the premium offered for the greatest 

 crop of corn produced on two acres of land, I send a statement 

 of the trial I made. 



