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and three and a half feet the other. The seed, — five kernels in 

 each hill, — about four inches apart. The manure applied, — a 

 large shovelful in each hill, — was about six cords to the acre. 

 Tisis manure was a compost of meadow mud and barnyard ma- 

 nure in equal parts. The mud used this year was taken from the 

 meadow in February last. 



May 14, 1857. Planted one acre and twenty-four rods Avith 

 yellow eight-rowed corn. Part of the field was hoed by hand, 

 only once, and with the horse-hoe alone, three times. Oct. 5. 

 Harvested 113| bushels corn ; making 100 bushels, 25 quarts, 

 good corn, by measure, per acre. Or 108 bushels, by weight, at 

 56 lbs. per bushel. Oct. 10, 1857. Sowed the same ground 

 with rye, using about five cords of similar compost manure to 

 the acre. In the second Aveek of July 1858, harvested the rye, 

 and had, by measure, 50 bushels 1 peck per acre ; or 47 bushels, 

 48 pounds by weight, at 5Q pounds per bushel, — and 5850 pounds 

 of straw. 



Sept. 10, 1858. Cut the grass on the same lots, and on the 

 14th, — the weather having been good, — it was well made and 

 weighed 8G85 pounds. 



May 17, 1858. Planted If acres of eight-rowed yellow corn, 

 which at harvest time, yielded 91§ bushels per acre, by measure ; 

 or 98 bushels 12 pounds by weight, at 56 pounds per bushel. This 

 corn was not hoed but once. 



The land on which these crops were grown was measured by 

 Charles Breck, Esq., Surveyor, of Milton. 



It must not be supposed that all our crops are as profitable as 

 these.* Farmers very well know that while we have a good crop 

 of corn growing, potatoes may be rotting. Or, if the grass is 

 doing well, the corn may be injured by wet and cold weather. So, 

 in various ways, we are mercifully saved from growing suddenly 

 rich. Yours respectfully, 



B. F. Dudley. 



MR. EDMUND TUCKER'S LETTER. 



Canton, Sept. 28, 1858. 



Gentlemen, — The cranberries, which I raised, grew on a piece 

 of moist upland, that had been in grass for a number of years. In 

 October, 1856, I ploughed and harrowed it, and then cut cran- 

 berry sods in the meadow, from eight to ten inches square, and 

 set them out in drills, two feet apart. 



In the Spring of 1857, I spread on the piece three one-horse 

 loads of fine sand and six quarts of salt. The first season, — Oc- 



* The committee noticed other crops of grass, on this farm, remarkable for 

 quality and quantity. Stock, also, of the best class. 



