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nure, and spread three fourths of it : the remainder pnt into the 

 hills: commenced planting, May 20th, finished June 13th, a 

 part was my seed corn, the remainder was the Canada yellow 

 corn : hoed twice without harrowing. 



Expense of ploughing, 



Planting manure in the hill. 



Hoeing twice, 



Manure, one half to the corn; 



Seed corn, . 



Cutting stalks and harvesting, 



Total, 



|8 00 



7 00 



10 00 



43 00 



75 

 18 00 



$86 75 



My acre of corn grew upon a gravelly loam, and was plough- 

 ed last September. This spring, spread 41 loads of compost 

 manure; ploughed it in, and harrowed the same ; furrowed a 

 little short of three feet ; planted, May 5th ; harrowed twice in 

 each row, both ways; cut up the weeds around the hills; sec- 

 ond time, harrowed once in a row, each way. and removed the 

 weeds, as before. Did nothing more, except cutting up a few 

 weeds that remained. Seed corn selected at husking time, last 

 fall, being a mixture of yellow, white, and flesh-colored corn. 



Expense of ploughing, 

 Carting and spreading manure, 

 Second ploughing and harrowing. 

 Manure, half to the corn, . 

 Planting, and twice harrowing, 

 Seed corn, and cutting up weeds. 

 Topping stalks, and harvesting, 



Total 



MiDDLEBOROUGH, Oct. 30, 1848. 



$44 50 



Willard Wood's Statement. 



The land I enter for premium, for Indian corn, is a high 

 gravelly loam. In 1847, I cut from it about one fourth of a ton 



