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The laud was light and loamy, having been used as a pas- 

 ture for some years. About the middle of May I drew on 

 forty-six loads of green manure and ploughed it in, then forty- 

 five loads, making ninety-one, dropping it in the hills. Planted 

 it the 23d and 24th of May, three feet one way, and eighteen 

 inches the other, with three kernels in a hill. The 19th and 

 20th of June it was cultivated and hoed once. 



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Statement of Horace Collamore. 



The two acres entered by me for the premium for the best 

 field of Indian corn was in grass the last year. It is a grav- 

 elly loam, rather inclined to clay. About the 10th of May 

 about forty loads of barn manure were carted on, spread, and 

 ploughed under, from seven to nine inches deep, with the Michi- 

 gan double-mould-board plough, when it was rolled, and forty 

 loads of mud compost carted on and harrowed in. 



It was planted the 24th and 25th of May, three and one-half 

 feet one way by eighteen inches the other, three kernels in a 

 hill. About weeding time, a handful of ashes and plaster, 

 mixed, was put round each hill of corn on a part of the field ; 

 on other parts super-phosphate of lime and plaster ; and on 

 other parts another preparation, which will not be likely to be 

 extensively used, viz., plaster, rotten eggs and ashes ; the latter 

 gave evidence of being the best fertilizer; but the drought and 

 worms put an end to my anticipations of even an ordinary 

 crop ; and on harvesting, I think it was cut short more than 

 half. 



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