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was manured in the spring of 1853 : seven cords of composg 

 manure, two-thirds of it spread and ploughed in, and the 

 remainder put in the hills. Planted the 20th of May with 

 the golden Sioux corn — hills three feet eight inches apart 

 each way — four stalks to the hill. After the corn was up, 

 planted the beans beside each hill of the corn — yield of 

 beans, five bushels. 1st November, I shelled two baskets of 

 ears, which weighed sixty-seven pounds. Allowing fifty-six 

 pounds to the bushel, it makes eighty-seven bushels and 

 twenty-one fifty-sixths, (^orn was harvested the 1st of Oc- 

 tober. The corn was hoed twice, the ground kept level as 

 possible. Stalks cut 1st September. Amount of labor, about 

 eighteen days work — the value of the land, seventy-five 

 dollars per acre. 

 Andover, November 14, 1853. 



Amos Poor, Jb's. Statement. 



I present for examination one and a quarter acres of corn ; 

 where the corn grew grass was mown in 1851 ; in 1852 it 

 was planted with corn and potatoes and was manured in 

 hills. The present year fifteen cart loads of manure to the 

 acre were ploughed in and a small quantity of manure put 

 in the hills ; it was planted four feet between the hills each 

 way ; planted the 12th, of May ; hoed three times ; harvest- 

 ed about the middle of October, and yielded 257 baskets of 

 sound corn, weighing 45 lbs. 10 oz., to the basket, making 

 the whole weight on the acre and a quarter 117251bs. 



West Newbury, Dec, 5th, 1853. 



I hereby certify that I measured a piece of land for Amoa 

 Poor, jr., which measured two hundred rods, on which he 



