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 Jabez Fisher's Statement.^ 



Tlie acre npoii which my corn was raised is a strong loam, 

 resting upon a clayey bottom. In 1855, the crop was 

 carrots, manured with artificial fertilizers. In 1856, it was 

 carrots and field beets in alternate rows, with three to four 

 cords of ^larn cellar manure. In 1857, it was manured with 

 four cords in bulk of liquid manure broad cast, and plowed 

 with horse and oxen ten inches deep, May 19th. Cross 

 plowed May 28th. Harrowed and furrowed out May 29th. 

 Dropped in the furrows $10,00 worth of hen manure, and 

 planted King Phillip corn May 30th and June 1st, one half 

 ill hills and one half in drills, five to the rod. Kernels in the 

 drill five to eight inches apart. Hills thirty inches apart. 

 Plowed one way and hoed the first week in July. One half 

 of it was horse hoed and hand hoed the third week in July, 

 llains prevented the further cultivation, which left the 

 surface level. Top stalks were cut the last of September, 

 as wanted for feeding. Buts cut up in the early part of 

 November. 



Cost of preparing the land, $6,00 



" manure,t 10,00 



" cultivation and harvesting, 14,00 



Product, 90 bushels of shelled corn. 

 The portion planted in drills gave the greatest yield, but 

 the difference was not ascertained. 



* Tliese and the following statements are made up from the answers ^vbich are given 

 to questions coutaiued in the blauk forms which are returned by the several competitora. 



t This does not include the liquid manure, which is a combination of the urine of the 

 stwk with the soluble portions of the solid manures, kept in a water tight cellar. Jts 

 value wouhl appear to be verj' slight from the estimate usually placed upon it, but I ara 

 iiicliued to the opinion that when diluted to the bulk of the solid manure without litter, 

 it is equally valuable, cord for eord.] 



