60 ON THE CULTIVATION OF CROPS. 



peculiar mode of husbandry, which may be adopted by 

 other farmers with the certainty of equally successful 

 results. 



Mr. Stevens says, that in preparing the land, he had 

 no view to planting for a premium, and his statement 

 does not give the quantity or kind of manure applied on 

 this or previous years, or the kind of corn planted. A 

 part of the land described by Mr. Webber, had been 

 sown to onions, and dressed annually with manure and 

 marsh-mud; the residue had been planted with pota- 

 toes two years, and manured m 1840, with fifteen horse 

 loads of mud, and in 1841, with two cords of stable ma- 

 nure; four and a half cords of manure from the hog-yard, 

 were ploughed in, the present year. 



The committee are pleased to see Town Farms enter- 

 ed as competitors for the Society's premiums. The 

 mode of supporting and employing the poor on farms, 

 now so generally adopted in Essex, is both economical 

 for the towns, and conducive to the health and comfort 

 of the unfortunate inmates. Many of these establishments 

 are honorably distinguished not only for order, neat- 

 ness and comfort, but also for good husbandry. 



Mr. Bradley seems to have made the best and most 

 judicious use of the means and implements within the 

 control of every farmer; and the liberal crop of nearly 

 ninety-seven bushels to the acre, was the result of his 

 good and careful cultivation. 



The committee agree in awarding to him the premi- 

 um often dollars 



To Mr. Putnam, the Society is indebted for repeated 

 experiments on manures, and for the very full detail he 

 has given the committee of the mode of preparing his 

 compost, and applying it to his corn-crop. 



His mode of ploughing between the rows of corn and 

 severing its roots, is contrary to the generally received 

 opinion of farmers, and the result of his experiments in 

 that most important particular, profit, is unfavorable for 

 the present year at least, although we hope the future 

 produce of the land may shift the balance in his favor. 

 But so important is it to farmers to increase their means 



