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cords of summer dung, and about the hulk of two tons of Jiay of 

 dried potato vines and weeds, 4 casks of lime, $13 worth Peruvian 

 guano, together with a quantity of damaged meat and fish, were 

 mixed up with soil sufficient to make the 16 cords. Upon the other 

 half, 13 cords of barn manure were spread, and the whole was well 

 covered and mixed by drawing over it a large cultivator, and thea 

 harrowing it both ways, after which it was rolled. It was planted 

 on the 13th of May, in hills 3 feet 9 in. apart, with Mr. Porter's 

 early, or Canada corn. It was hoed three times, a cultivator being 

 used at the two first hoeings, and by the 20th September it was 

 sufficiently ripe to harvest ; but for want of time it was not harvested 

 until last week. 



You will perceive, by the accompanying certificates, that the yield 

 is 90 bushels per acre. 



Haverhill, Nov. 14, 1855. 



WILLIAM FOSTER'S STATEMENT. 



1 offer for premium a crop of oats raised upon a piece of rather 

 ordinary land, which was broken up in the fall of 1852, sown 

 with oats in the spring of '53 — the crop was fair for sward ground. 

 It was ploughed in August following, the stubble well covered, and 

 manured in the spring of '54 with 30 cart loads, of about 35 bushels 

 each, of compost manure, 20 of which were ploughed in, the remain- 

 der put in the hills, and planted to corn. The crop, in consequence 

 of drought, was rather a light one. This spring it was well ploughed 

 the last of April, and sown the first day of May with four bushels 

 of oats, well harrowed, seeded to grass, and rolled ; the oats were 

 cut with a cradle the 4th of August, thrashed and winnowed the 

 10th, and found to measure seventy-eight bushels, two of which 

 were weighed, and found to weigh 32 pounds each. 



Value of crop at QQ cents per bushel, 45 of which I sold 



at that price in August last, $51.68 



Thirty hundred of straw, al least 10.00 



Total, $61.68 



