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yielded 2,000 pounds of tobacco. Last year I worked it at the halves. 

 Mr. Westcott furnishing 1 ,200 pounds of Melrose superphosphate, and 

 the acre yielded fifty bushels shelled corn and 4,200 pounds fodder. 

 The soil is a sandy loam, with a gravelly subsoil. It is a good corn 

 land. It was ploughed, May 18, six inches deep, harrowed with Acme 

 harrow same day. May 20, marked both ways, planted with Macomber 

 planter, rows 38 inches, hills 19 inches apart, Amherst Dent ccn, four 

 kernel in a hill. May 22, scattered 1 .200 pounds Bradleys complete 

 corn manure along the drills, and harrowed with Acme harrow, driver 

 walking. June 5, thinned to three plants in a hill. June 12, cultivated 

 twice in row. June 13, hoed. July 10, sowed broadcast 400 pounds 

 Bradleys complete corn manure, cultivated twice in a row, and harrowed 

 Sept. 18 and 26. 



The committee inspected the crop, Sept. 7, and cut and stooked an 

 average rod; and Oct. 21, he husked and weighed the corn on this 

 stook, and it yielded 47 pounds of ears and 58 of stover. This would 

 indicate a yield of 7,520 pounds of ears, which at 80 pounds of ears to 

 the bushel would give 94 bushels of shelled corn and four and two-thirds 

 tons of fodder on the acre. On this was stouter larger corn than that 

 on the home lot, before described, I cannot but think that a portion of 

 the corn had been stolen from the stook. This sample stook was cut 

 and set up before the hard storm of the 11th of September; and to 

 ascertain as far as possible the effect of this storm on the standing corn, 

 I husked and weighed an adjoining stjok with the following results : 



Oct. 23, one stook Dent corn (Westcott lot) eight bundles, 142 stalks, 

 weight of corn (ears) 50 pounds, weight of stover 54 pounds, yield per 

 acre 9,165 pounds of ears. At 80 pounds of ears to the bushel, 1 14|-f 

 bushels of shelled corn, and 4.^ tons of fodder. This would seem to 

 show that, while the hail cut and slit the fodder badly, it actually 

 destroyed but little of it. The stook last described also contained 48 

 hills ; while as on the other piece, there are 55 hills in a square rod. 



The following is a statement of our account with the crop : 



1895 corn crop in account with W. S. Westcott and John C. Dillon, Z^r. 



May 18. Plowing $2, harrowing 75 cents, $2 75 



" 20. Marking 50 cents, planting $1, seed 50 cents, 2 00 



22. Bradleys complete corn manure, 1000 pounds, 20 OQ 



Applying fertilizer $1 , harrowing 37 cents, 1 37 



June 5. Thinning, 1 50 



" 12. Cultivating $1, hoeing $2. 50, 3 50' 



