98 ONVEGETABLES 



To John M. Ives, of Salem, for orange flesh cantelope, 25 

 To Ebenezer Lord, of Ipswich, for specimen of the 



chestnut, 25 



For the Committee, 



D. CHOATE. 

 Ipswich, Sept. 24tii, 1845. 



EDAVIN M. STONES STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Vegetables : 



Gentlemen, — The accompanying twelve ears of corn, of the 

 twelve and eight rowed kind, I gathered from the field on Tuesday 

 last week, (16th Sept.) They are a fair sample of an acre and two 

 thirds, cultivated by a neighbor, Mr. Isaac Babson, which was in 

 proper condition ta harvest last week. The corn was in silk on the 

 28th June, and the stalks were Jit to cut 18th August, and were cut 

 25th of that month. Mr. Babson has planted this variety several 

 years, and has uniformly obtained fifty bushels to the acre. He 

 thinks his field will yield at that rate the present season. He plants 

 four feet apart each way, and manures in the hill. The weight of 

 this corn, when in order for grinding, has been found, upon trial, to 

 be sixty pounds to the bushel, or three thousand pounds to the acre. 

 My principal object in procuring and presenting these samples, is to 

 afford a practical demonstration of what farmers, with a little pains, 

 may do, to bring their corn to early maturity. Mr. Babson's prac- 

 tice has been for a number of years, to select his seed, in the Jield, 

 from the fairest and most forward ears; and the result is, that his 

 corn ripens a. fortnight earlier than it did when he commenced plant- 

 ing this kind. This, it seems to me, is an important fact, and if 

 duly heeded by farmers generally, will place their corn crops be- 

 yond the reach of our earliest frosts, as well as the storms of Octo- 

 ber, which often beat down and soil the butt stalks. 



Very respectfully yours, 



EDWIN M. STONE. 



Beverly, Sept. 24, 1845. 



