96 



West Boxpoed, Oct. 29, 1885. 

 This may certify that I measured one acre of corn for 

 Oliver P. Killam. 



Sam'l E. Merrill. 



Essex, ss. 



Personally appeared the above named Samuel E. Merrill 

 and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed 

 is true, this thirty-first day of October, A. D. 1885. 

 Before me, 



Edward E. Pearl, Justice of the Peace. 



statement of JOSEPH H. LUNT. 



Essex Agricultural Society: 



Statement of a crop of corn raised by Joseph H. Lunt of 



Newbury, 1885. 



The land was in grass in 1883 and 1884 and had no 

 dressing applied. In the fall of 1884, it was plowed five 

 or six inches deep, and again in the spring of 1885 two or 

 three inches deep. The soil is sandy. Twelve or thirteen 

 loads of dressing from the barn cellar was spread upon it 

 and harrowed in with a wheel harrow. Two bags of super- 

 phosphate of 400 lbs. each were put in the hills, costing 

 $5.60. It was planted in May with one and one-half pecks 

 of Longfellow corn, five or six kernels in a hill, which cost 

 at the rate of $2 per bushel. The plowing was done in 

 one day with a pair of horses and yoke of cattle. Three 

 men worked one day planting, fertilizing and drilling. The 

 rows were three feet apart. The crop was cultivated four 

 times. The crop is not yet harvested except the six rows 



which were measured. 



Joseph H. Lunt. 



This is to certify that I measured six rows of the above 



corn, which made an avenge on the whole acre of 168| 



busht-ls of ears of corn, and the above acre was acurate 



measure. '' 



James H. Ilsley. 



