STATEMENT OP JAMES J. H. GREGORY. 



Gentlemen of the Committee: 



The piece of corn entered by me for premium is of the 

 Longfellow variety, and was f»rown on 60.625 feet of land. 

 The yield was 229 bushels of merchantable corn, weighing 

 441 lbs. to the heaped bushel, and 7 bushels of "nubbins." 

 The yield of fodder was 154 stooks, averaging 103 lbs. to 

 the stook. In determining the yield of corn, every bushel 

 was measured and the average weight taken of four of 

 them. In determining the weight of fodder the average 

 weight of three average stooks was taken. This meas- 

 ure and weight were taken Oct. 31st in the field. Assum- 

 ing that 75 lbs. on the ear make a bushel of shelled corn, 

 it will be found that the yield per acre was 101 1-3 bushels 

 of merchantable corn and about four bushels of nubbins. 

 The ears of corn were very generally filled out to their 

 tips. The fodder per acre was 11,309 lbs. or rather over 

 five and a half tons. The corn stalks grew exceptionably 

 tall. 



Four years ago the piece was in onions, which had 

 applied to them per acre four cords of barn manure and 

 night soil, and the equivalent of six hundred pounds of a 

 good superphosphate. Three years ago the land was in 

 cabbage, which had applied to them per acre about the 

 same quantity of super phosphate with five cords of barn 

 manure. Last year the acre was in cabbage seed, the 

 manure application being the same as the previous year. 

 After the seed was gathered the land was planted to Rye, 

 which was turned under late in the spring, when it had 

 attained a growth of between three and four feet in height. 

 By comparison with the corn crop on the land adjoining, I 

 believe this acre was helped much by the Rye turned 

 under at so advanced a period of itsgrowth. The cost of 

 production was as follows : 



