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acre was fit for nothing but manure and was not taken into the 

 account. 



I consider Indian corn as productive as any crop we raise ; 

 where there is 6Q bushels to an acre the corn-fodder on the same 

 is worth as much for a ^tock of edttle as a ton of Enghsh hay. 

 , All which is respectfully submitted, TiiOMAS Chase. 



West Newbury, December, 1833. 



HEZEKIAH GEORGE S STATEMENT. 



To the Trustees of the Essex Agricultural Society : 



Gentlemen — I respectfully submit for your consideration a 

 statement of the produce of one acre of land sown with oats the 

 present season, and the previous cultivation. The land is a part 

 of the Town Farm in Haverhill. It was purchased by the town 

 in the Spring of 1830, and was then in an exhausted state. It 

 was mowed that year and yielded about half a ton of hay to the 

 acre. In 1831, I turned in the sward, put in four cords of ma- 

 nure, and harvested about forty bushels of Corn from this acre. 

 In 1832, I put five cords of manure on the acre, which yielded 

 three hundred bushels of potatoes. The past spring I ploughed 

 it once, and on the twenty fourth of April sowed four bushels of 

 the oats called in this neighborhood Killam oats, and on har- 

 vesting the crop on thi^ acre, which was measured by C. White, 

 Esq. the produce was seventy-eight bushels 26 qts. of oats, as 

 measured by Mr. Rufus Slocun?i, weighing thirty-six lbs. to the 

 bushel. Hez'h George. 



Haverhill, Nov. 1833. 



Haverhill, Aug 5, 1833. I hereby certify, that this day at 

 the request of Mr. Hezekiah George I measured on the Town 

 Farm a piece of land on which were a crop of oats containing 

 one acre. Charles White, Surveyor. 



I hereby certify, that on the seventeenth day of September, 

 A. D. 1833, at the request of Mr. Hezekiah George I measured 

 the produce of one acre of oats grown on the Poor Farm of the 



