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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GRAIN. 



Makshfield, October 30, 1884. 

 Statement of C. P. Wright, of Marshfield. 



COKN. 



The crop of corn which I have entered for premium grew 

 on land which was in corn last year, and M'as manured last 

 year with kelp and barn manure, — about twenty-five one horse 

 loads of kelp and twenty loads of manure to the acre. Had 

 a fair crop for last year. This year used about thirty loads 

 of kelp and twenty of manure. There are two and one-half 

 acres in the field. I had two rods measured in different parts 

 of the field, and there was not a pound of difference in the 

 two rods. 



Cultivation of the corn : The field was ploughed and har- 

 rowed, and marked off about three and one-half feet both ways, 

 and planted with a corn planter. I had it cultivated twice 

 both ways, and about four days' work with hoes, clearing out 

 the weeds from the hills on the two and one-half acres. It was 

 planted about the middle of May. I think the last year's crop 

 did not, perhaps, get its share of the manure, as the season 

 was so dry. I do give the kelp a great deal of the credit for 

 the crop of corn this year, 



C. P. Wright, 



