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STATEMENT OF CORN CKOP GROWN BY J. M. SMITH. 



The soil upon Avliich my crop was grov/n in 1865, consists of 

 "U'hat may be called alluvial. 



The land is situated in Sunderland Meadow (so called) and 

 Contains by measurement nine acres and sixty rods. The crops 

 taken. from the land in the years of 1863-4, were hay with the ex- 

 ception of one aild a quarter acres, upon which a crop of corn Ava3 

 raised in the season of 1864:, upon which twenty-five loads of 

 manure were harrowed in. 



For the crop of the present season the land was ploughed six 

 inches deep, a portion in the fall previous, the remainder last 

 Spring, with no perceptible difl'erence in the amount of the 

 crop*. 



The manure was made as follows : In the Fall of 186-1, several 

 piles of muck were drawn upon the field, amounting in all to 

 twenty loads to the acre, and with it ther e was mixed Fish Guano 

 at the rate of ten hundred per acre. The following Spring tea 

 loads of barn yard manure to each twenty loads of muck wore 

 mixed, turning twice before using. Immediately before planting 

 thirty loads of this compost were put upon each acre, spreading 

 broadcast from the cart, and the surface well pulverized. The 

 seed was dropped with the corn planter,- and at the same time^ 

 two hundred lbs., equal parts of Superphosphate of Lime and 

 Plaster of Paris v/ere dropped in the hill. The corn was hoed 

 fQur times, going through with a horse five times. 



The corn was cut close to the ground, bound in bfindles^'ahd 

 shocked between the tenth and twentieth of 'Seotember, 



