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After plowing, ai)])lied about five cords of barn-yard 

 manure per acre, broadcast, harrowing with a coniuion 

 spike tooth harrow ; planting about the 20th of June, 

 Southern white corn, in rows or drills, about three feet 

 apart, seed in drills from two to six inches distant, drop- 

 ping and covering done by hand. 



Nothing more was done to it until about the first of 

 August, when we went through, cutting up the weeds which 

 were not very numerous. 



Although it was a very dry season, the corn was affected 

 but little thereby, except within a few feet of the ledges ; 

 and grew far beyond my expectations, some stalks reach- 

 ing 12 to 14 feet in height. Cut the corn the first days of 

 October; after it was harvested, drew off such stones as 

 the plow and harrow had brought to the surface, and dig- 

 ging out the large ones that the plow would not throw out, 

 also digging out the surface rocks on the balance of the 

 field, drawing the large ones ofT on the drag, in tlie Winter 

 when the first snows came, and early in the Spring ; one 

 pair of oxen moving a very large boulder with comparative 

 ease at those times. 



In the Spring of 1883, broke up the remainder of the 

 field in the same way as that of the previous spring, apply- 

 ing manure in same manner and quantity on that newly 

 broken as described al)ove, planting about two acres of the 

 corn stubble to potatoes, with no manure ; balance of field 

 planted to corn as above described. Tlie potatoes were 

 hoed once, going through them with double mould board 

 plow ; they grew to good size and of excellent quality. 

 The corn was hoed as above stated, without cultivating, 

 and grew remarkably well. 



In Spring of 1884, plowed again, apjAying about six 

 cords of manure per acre where last broken, planting to 

 corn and potatoes as before, using Stockbridge's manure 

 under the potatoes where there had been no manure since 



