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first was raised by Messrs. E. and J. Sias on a farm formerly 

 belonging to II. Inches, Esq. As the land -was rough and rocky, 

 and as nothing extra "was expected, no particular account was 

 kept. Noticing that it was more than a usual crop, I requested 

 Mr. Sias to keep an accurate account of the quantity, which he 

 did. There were 178 baskets of ears. On the 25th of October 

 I assisted in weighing some of the shelled corn, and found that a 

 basket full of cars gave SQ^ lbs. of corn, and lOJ lbs. of cobs. 

 We then took the same weight of corn on the ear (47 lbs.) and 

 laid it by itself to dry more, if it would. November 14th I 

 weighed this same basket of ears and found that it had lost three 

 pounds. We then shelled the corn, and there were 37 lbs. of 

 corn and 7 lbs. of cobs, the latter having lost 3| lbs. while the 

 corn had gauied f lb. I have measured the land, — one acre and 

 28 rods. At 56 lbs. to the bushel, the yield is 117i-^^, — a frac- 

 tion over 100 bushels to the acre. The corn was the Plymouth 

 County, or smutty white. Mr. Sias says, that last year, as the 

 land was very rough, with many fast rocks, and a part covered 

 with slate ledge, it was manured very hghtly and yielded a very 

 small crop ; or as Mr. S. expressed it, " We shghted the corn 

 and the corn slighted us." 



This year we put on seven cords of manure, part from the pig- 

 gery and part from the barn-yard. The rows were about three 

 and a half feet apart, hills two and a half feet apart in the rows. 

 Before we had finished planting, our old manure was gone, and on 

 one eighth of the field we put into the hills manure green from 

 the barn-windows. On that part the corn did not come up. We 

 planted a second time, which greatly reduced the yield, as, being 

 later, it was more affected by the dry weather, and did not fill out 

 half as well as the rest. A part of the field for several rods was 

 a slate ledge, upon which we carted several loads of loam to 

 cover the corn with. This portion was also much injured by the 

 dry weather. Considering both of these things, and also that the 

 dry season must have had a bad effect upon the whole field, and 

 that the whole field was measured and the whole corn in the field 

 instead of that from a single rod, and the calculations made from 

 actual weight, the crop must be regarded as an extra one. 



The other field belonged to ]\Ir. J. F. Twombly, and, as you 

 saw, Avas on the southerly side of Milton Hill. I did not see the 



