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Every statement which I present rests upon credible authority ; 

 but it is not necessary to refer to names. In Essex the yield is 

 rated at 50 bushels to the acre. Wenham and Hamilton 35 bs. ; 

 Ipswich 30 and 70 bs. ; Old Rowley 50 bs. ; New Rowley 40 bs. ; 

 West Amesbury 30 bs. ; Amesbury 40, 50, 60 bs. ; Salisbury 35, 

 50, 70, 80 bs. ; Newbury 40, GO, 80 bs. ; Saugus 30, 75 bs ; 

 Manchester GO, 72 bs. ; Gloucester 40, GO, 75 bs. ; Beverly 40, 

 50 bs. ; Danvers 40, 85, 95, 110 bs. This would give an average 

 of 54 bushels to the acre. The price of corn in the county has 

 now for some time exceeded one dollar per bushel ; and it may be 

 fairly estimated at one dollar when pork is valued at 10 cents per 

 cvvt. The best kinds of tlint corn weigh GO lbs. to the bushel. 



I found corn in the county which was planted the lOih of June 

 and ripe the 7th of September. Many fields planted the middle of 

 May were fit for harvest the first week in September. A farmer 

 whose premises every where exhibit excellent management writes 

 me that a field of 2 J acres, which I visited, was sound and good, and 

 yielded 280 bushels of ears, equal to 5G bushels of sound corn, to 

 the acre. The largest crop raised, of which I have any return the 

 present year on any one farm is G17 bushels. 



Of the expenses of cultivating an acre of corn in this part of the 

 State I have been fortunate enough to obtain only three estimates ; 

 these are from farmers, whose lives have been devoted to agriculture. 



$43 GO 



An acre under his cultivation will generally yield from 40 to 60 

 bushels ; 



