110 ON GRAIN CROPS. 



PAUL p. PILLSBUPvY'S STATRMENT. 

 I beg leave to submit the following facts, relating to tlie 

 cultivation of a mixed crop of corn and beaus, on my farm in 

 Andover. The crop which I offer for premium, was the pro- 

 duce of one acre. The laud was broken up iu the fall of 

 1849, and planted iu 1850, with coru. Tweuty common cart 

 loads of manure spread on to the acre. Crop about fifty bush- 

 els per acre. 



In the spring of 1851, there were fifteen cart loads of barn 

 manure spread to the acre and ploughed in ; then the land was 

 harrowed, then furrowed, and manured with eight cart loads 

 of compost manure to the acre. On the twentieth of May, I 

 planted with the C4olden Sioux corn, with from three to four 

 kernels to the hill, and the same number of beans. Hills three 

 and a half feet apart each way. Hoed twice. The stalks cut 

 first of September. Corn harvested first week in October, 

 and the crop was one hundred and forty-one and a half baskets, 

 full of ears of corn, weigliing forty-one pounds to the basket, and 

 one basket full, of equal weight and measure, kept until the first 

 of November, gave eighteen quarts of shelled corn. The corn 

 when harvested was sound and dry, a sample of which was 

 presented at the Cattle Show, at Salem, in September. There 

 were six bushels of white beans on the acre. 



The following is the amount of labor done this present sea- 

 son upon this crop. Two men and one )-oke of oxen, one day 

 and a half hauling and dropping manure, one man and one 

 yoke of oxen, one day ploughing and furrowing, one man and 

 a boy one day plantii;^g, hoeing twice, five days labor, cutting 

 and binding stalks two days labor, harvesting corn and beans, 

 seven days labor. 



The soil is a brown loam. Land is \ra!ued at fifty doUars 

 per acre. 



Andover, Nov. 3d, 185 L 



