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an instrument which made five marks at once, three feet 

 apart, and on the 26th and 28th of May, three acres were 

 planted with common yellow corn, using Randall & Jones' 

 double corn planter, set three feet six inches wide, with which 

 I crossed the marks, giving rows both ways. When the corn 

 c ame up I put a handfull of ashes on the hills, using forty- 

 eight bushels. I planted it so deep that it did not come up 

 well, and the worms and crows worked it badly. The defi- 

 cient hills I supplied with beans and cabbages. 



The corn was hoed twice by myself and two men working 

 one day each time. Previous to hoeing I ran through my 

 horse hoe, once in a row each way, both times, it requiring 

 one day's work of myself, horse and boy each way, both times, 

 or four days with the horse hoe. 



I estimate the expense of cultivating the one acre, as fol- 

 lows, viz : — 



Manure, - - - - $16 00 



Laying out and spreading the manure, 16 loads, 4 00 

 Laying out the ashes, 1 6 bushels, - - 2 67 



Ploughing and harrowing, - - - 3 50 



Marking and Planting, - - - 33 



Cultivating with the horse hoe, 2 50 



Hoeing with the hand hoe twice, - - 2 00 



W. G. WYMAN. $31 00 



Jabez Fisher's Statement. 

 The acre of corn which I enter for the society's premium, 

 was planted upon a moderately strong loam, resting upon a 

 clayey bottom. Its slope was toward the south and east. 

 Cultivated last year for sweet and fodder corn. Plowed twice 

 during the third week in May, ten to twelve inches deep. 

 Manured broad cast, previous to plowing, with 14 loads, con- 

 taining 4 1-2 cords, of the following compost. Of the clear 

 droppings, solid and liquid, of 1 horse and 7 head of neat 

 stock 4 parts, wool waste 1 part. Corn of the King Philip 



