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land. Last year, in April, there were spread upon it four 

 cords of compost manure ; it was ploughed in, and it was then 

 sowed Avith oats. June 10th the oats had attained quite a 

 large growth ; they were turned under, and the land sowed 

 with carrots, which failed to grow, on account of the dry 

 weather ; and in the last part of July I sowed flat turnips, and 

 they produced a large crop. This year — May 14th — I spread 

 upon four-fifths of the land eight cords of manure — on the 

 other fifth there was no manure used, and it produced in pro- 

 portion to the manured part, as three is to five. The manure 

 was composed of meadow mud, sea kelp, and barn manure, the 

 whole drenched with night-soil; this manure was applied at 

 different depths (for particulars see experiments with manui-es). 

 The land was ploughed eight inches deep, and cross ploughed 

 four inches deep, and harrowed ; then planted, on the 17th 

 of May, with King Phillip corn, six kernels in a hill, in rows 

 three and one-half feet apart, and the same distance between 

 the hills. The corn was scarified or horse hoed three times, 

 and hand hoed twice, during the season ; not a weed was al- 

 lowed to grow. 



October 6th cut it close to the ground, and stocked it up. 

 November 3d, it being dry and in good order, I had the whole 

 crop weighed, and stored in the barn, and husked it out eve- 

 nings. The cost and value of the crop I estimate as follows : 



Whole weight of crop, 15,730 lbs. 



Weight of sound ears, 6,721 lbs. 



Weight of unsound ears, 184 " 



Weight of sound and unsound ears, 6,905 " 



Weight of stover, 8,825 " 



100 pounds of ears shelled 76^ pounds ; 1 bushel of shelled 

 corn in measure weighed 571^ pounds, therefore 6,721 pounds 

 of ears divided by 76^-100 equal 5,141^ pounds of shelled 

 corn, and 5,141^ divided by 57^ pounds — weight of 1 bushel — 

 equals 89 4-10 bushels ; 184 pounds unsound corn, equal in 

 value 1 to bushel. 



