82 ON CULTIVATION OF CROPS. 



Mr. F. J. Merriam, of Topsfield, submitted to the 

 committee a statement of the cultivation of eight and 

 a half bushels of black sea wheat, on 60 rods of land. 

 Mr. A. Sheldon, of Middleton, entered his field of 

 Corn, but in consequence of the injury done to it by 

 the wind, did not furnish a statement of the produce. 

 For the Committee. 



DANIEL ADAMS, 3d, Chairman. 

 Dec. 31, 1839. 



DANIEL PUTNAM'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, ) 

 on Grain Crops • $ 



Gentlemen — I offer for premium a crop of In- 

 dian Corn, obtained, as you will learn from the ac- 

 companying certificates, from 168 poles of land, and 

 measuring 92 bushels; at the rate of 87 bushels, 19 

 quarts, 1 pint, 2 1-2 gills per acre. It was an eight- 

 rowed corn, large kernel, of reddish color. The soil 

 on which it grew, was dark loam with gravelly sub- 

 soil. This land had been in grass for five years, and 

 in 1838 yielded probably about one ton of hay. Jn 

 November of '38, about one half of this was dressed 

 with unfermented manure from the barn cellar, at 

 the rate of about 4 cords per acre, and immediately 

 broken up. In May, 1839, the remainder of the 

 piece received a similar dressing and was immedi- 

 ately turned over. This latter portion was then 

 rolled, and harrowed both lengthwise and across 

 the furrows. The whole was furrowed or mark- 



