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EDWARD SMITH'S STATEMENT. 



CORN- 



The acre on wliicli my corn, that I offer for premium 

 was raised, is a gravelly soil, with a hard sub-soil. The 

 crop of 1857 was potatoes, with ten loads compost 

 manure. It was plOAved twice May 15th, first about 

 seven inches deep, last lightly with one horse; was 

 manured with twenty-five loads compost spread ; planted 

 May 25th with eight rowed yellow corn, hoed three 

 times, the cultivator being used twice, and harvested 

 October 20th. 



Cost of plowing, &c., - . • - $4,00 



manure, .-•.;■ 25,00 



seed and planting, - - . 1,75 



cultivation, - - * - 7,50 



harvesting and storing, - - - 7,00 



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Total, - - - - $45,25 



Product, $10 worth of stover, and 32 J lbs. of ears of 

 corn per square rod. 



THOMAS WHITNEY'S STATEMENT, 



CORN. 



The corn which I offer for premium for the best variety, 

 is the Rhode Island premium Corn. It was planted 

 the last Wednesday in May, on land previously pasture, 

 broke up in May, and manured with about nine loads of 

 green stable manure per acre, spread and harrowed in, 

 and about the same quantity of compost put in the hill, 

 furrowed both ways a little over three feet apart, aboufc 

 four stocks left to the hill on an average. All good 



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