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18th, 1891, planted to potatoes April 26tb, and 1000 lbs. of Stock- 

 bridge potato manure was sown along the furrows, May 20th. 

 Otherwise the treatment was substantially the same as that on the 

 Westcott lot above described. An average rod of row selected, dug 

 and weighed by your committee, Sept. 8th, gave 30 lbs. of tubers, 

 mostly of good marketable size. This is at the rate of 416^ bushels 

 to the acre. 



The third piece is a light, sandy or gravelly loam and produced 

 about a half a ton of hay to the acre in 1890. Early in the spring I 

 spread about five cords of barn manure on the acre, and April 24th 

 plowed it in seven inches. Planted, April 28, Munroe Seedlings and 

 Beauty of Hebron, and. May 20th, sowed 1000 lbs. of Wilcox potato 

 manure in the drill. The planting and after cultivation were similar 

 to that previously described, and the yield of the rod of row selected 

 by the committee was 20 lbs. of potatoes, which is at the rate of 277 

 bushels per acre. The rod sampled was of the Munroe Seedling 

 variety ; but finding that the Beauty of Hebron yielded much better, 

 I left a square rod of this variety which the committee dug when they 

 came, Oct. 1st, to harvest the corn. This rod, dug and weighed in 

 the presence of the committee, gave 120 lbs. of potatoes, which is at 

 the rate of 380 bushels to the acre. 



The corn offered for premium was grown on an acre of land on 

 which I raised 102 bushels of shelled corn in 1889 on barn manure 

 and Stockbridge manure, securing the record for the best corn crop 

 raised in Massachusetts in the American Agriculturist Contest. Last 

 year I used 2604 lbs. of Mapes potato manure, and the crop, as 

 sworn to by three witnesses, was 21,210 lbs. or 353 bushels of very 

 smooth sound potatoes. This was also the best potato crop reported 

 in Massachusetts in the Agriculturist Contest in 1890. Soon after 

 harvesting the potatoes, I sowed two bushels of rye to the acre which 

 made a thick mat, and I plowed it in May 20, with a Wiard plow. 

 Planted May 25th with a Dent corn produced by crossing the Early 

 Mastodon with the Pride of the North. In planting, I mark both 

 ways with a marker drawn by two horses, and plant with the Macom- 

 ber planter. Rows 38 inches and hills 19 inches apart, two and 

 three kernels in a hill. May 28th I sowed 1000 lbs. of Wilcox 

 ammoniated phosphate along the drills, and then harrowed the piece 

 with the Acme harrow, set to run very light. The crop was a mag- 

 nificent one, but about a week before the committee made their first 



