REPORTS O^ CORK 



To the Committee on Crops, Gentlemen : 



It was not my origiiiiil intention to I'cport ou bnt one acre of the 



field of corn you have i'.ispected, but finding it difficult to disciiniinate 

 I have decided to put in the whole field, presuming that if there is 

 any merit in raising one acre of good corn there is, to say the least, 

 nqne the less in raising more than one acre. I find the whole 

 piece as determined to-day by surveyor to contain 273 rods, and 

 the entire yield to be 130 2-5 bushels, being at the rate of 7G 2-5 

 bushels per acre. I determined the quantity of corn as follows : 

 Special pains was taken to have the stooks of uniform size, laying 

 three hills to the bundle and eight bundles to the stook, so that each 

 stook except in very rare cases contained just twenty-four hills. 



Ten of these stooks were selected in ditferent portions of the field. 

 I have shelled the corn to-day, and find the yield to be a small frac- 

 tion of four lbs. less than five bushels of 56 lbs. each. In other 

 words each stook yielded 27 G-10 lbs. The number of stooks being 

 265 it has not been a ditficult thing to determine the quantity. The 

 hind was what might properly be called low land, a mixture of sand, 

 clay and muck, and had been in grass some ten years ; nothing had 

 been applied dui'ing the last three years, and was inclining to scdgv 

 bogs. The turf was very thick and strong, requiring about all the 

 force of a heavy pair of horses to put the plough through. In the 

 spring a Avheel harrow was put on both ways, then a digger, with a 

 man to ride, until it was mellow as an ash heap. The rows were 

 hiid out both ways, 3 1-2 feet each way. The manui-e used was 

 stable m;inui-c. The amount used on the piece, noar as I can deter- 

 mine, was sixteen two-horse loads, and was all applied in the hills. 

 lam well aware that there have been larger yields of corn reported, 

 brought about by special p;iinstakin^ and high manuring, but have 

 yet to learn of so large yield where no manarc had been applied for 

 three years, and none at the time of planting except in the hills. I 

 attribute my success in part to thorough cidtivation. The cultivator 

 was run through both ways at each hoeing, leaving but little to do 

 -witl^ the hoe. 



