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The Committee would suggest for the guidance of future 

 applicants, that the only way to obtain satisfactory evidence, 

 is to plant several varieties of corn that are well known to 

 be productive, on land of similar quality and location, with 

 the same fertiliser and cultivation, and carefull}' note the re- 

 sults by weight. 



Benjamin P. Ware, Charles P. Preston — (Jommitlee. 



REPOET OF THE WEST NEWBUEY FAEMEES' 



CLUB. 



The Corn offered to the Essex Agricultural Society by the 

 Farmers' Clul) of West NeAvbury, was raised by ten or twelve 

 members of that Club, and the manner of cultivation was 

 somewhat different, but in most cases it was raised with barn- 

 yard manure spread broadcast, about six cords per acre. 



With this manner of cultivation the amount per acre has 

 averaged 65 bushels of shelled corn, two of them had 85 

 bushels per acre. We do not know what it cost to raise a 

 bushel of corn with barn-yard manure, inasmuch as we do 

 not know the amount of fertilizer remaining in the soil after 

 the crop is off. Three of our members have tried the Stock- 

 bridge fertilizer with^the following result, with the presump- 

 tion that the Corn took from the soil the amount of fertilizer 

 applied. Their statement is as follows. Planted according 

 to the Stockbridge formula, the cost per bushel has been 43 

 cents ; the amount per acre 47 bushels of shelled Corn. 



The Corn crop of this town is all of 15 bushels less per" 

 acre than last year, owing to the severe drought in July. 



Our seed is the Danforth Corn, eight rowed, and, every- 

 thino' taken into consideration, the best variety we have ever 

 planted. We tried the Hapgood Corn this summer, Avith 

 very poor results. 



I have an early variety ; the seed I brought from Maine 

 last spring ; it was on exhibition at our Fair, also at the Essex 



