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been cultivated during six years for onions, and manured annu- 

 ally with good compost manure, seven cords per acre. 



May 19th, I divided the land into five equal lots each meas- 

 uring 40 by 200 feet. Upon lot No. 1 was spread evenly at 

 the rate of eight cords per acre, manure composted from mead- 

 ow mud, sea and barn manure, in about equal parts, the whole 

 completely saturated with night soil, all forked' over, and well 

 mixed twice befojre using, then ploughed the whole land eight 

 inches deep ; then spread an equal quantity of the same ma- 

 nure upon lot No. 2, and cross ploughed the whole land four 

 inches deep, then manured lot No. 3 in like manner, and har- 

 rowed the whole land thoroughly. 



May 22d, marked out the rows 3^ by 3 feet, with a chain, 

 and planted six kernels of common eight rowed yellow corn in 

 a hill one inch deep, eleven rows in each lot. Then spread up* 

 on lot No. 4 the same quantity of the same manure as on the 

 other lots, and let it remain upon the surface. 



Lot No. 5 had no manure. June 17th, worked the land 

 both ways wjth a horse hoe, so closely to the corn as to require 

 no use of the hand hoe. July 20th, cultivated both ways and 

 hoed the corn carefully. August 10th, went through and 

 pulled up all weeds that had escaped the hoe. October 15th, 

 cut up the corn close to the ground and stocked it. 



Nov. 1st, harvested and weighed the crops on the several 

 lots, resulting as follows : 

 Lot No. 1, net weight of corn and stover, 



" " of sound corn in the ear, 



" " of unsound corn, 



" No. 2, net weight of corn and stover, 



" "of sound corn in the ear, 



" " of unsound corn, 



" No. 3, net weight of corn and stover, 



*' " of sound corn in the ear, 



*•' " of unsound corn, 



" No. 4, net weight of corn and stover, 



" " of sound corn in the ear. 



