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cvoiti, weighing fifty nine pounds to the bushel ; seventeen hun- 

 dred and fifty pounds of pumpkins, one hundred and fifty pounds 

 of squashes, and eighteen bushels of turnips. As to the precise 

 times of hoeing, ploughing, planting, &c. I cannot ascertam, in 

 consequence of my principal workman being deprived of his 

 labour by indisposition, and the multiplicity of my cares made it 

 impossible for me to pay that attention which was necessary : 

 suffice it to say that my mode of management was much the 

 same as that of farmers in general. 



I am, gentlemen, with much respect, 



Your obedient servant, 



JOHN LEES, 



HEJSRY LITTLE'S STATEMENT. 



Newbury^ JVov, 5, 1822. 

 To the Committee on Green Crops. 

 Gentlemen^ 



The following is a statement of the cultivation and produc- 

 tion of one acre of Indian Corn raised by the subscriber in 

 Newbury: The soil is a dark clay loam, and in 18'^1 was 

 planted with beets and carrots, and manured with six cords of 

 manure made by a brewer in Newburyport, and produced about 

 400 bushels to the acre. In May, 1822, the land was twice 

 ploughed and planted in hills, 3 and a half feet apart, wiih 5 cords 

 of compost manure put in the holes ; four grains of corn were 

 put in each hill on the manure and covered with a hoe ; the 

 corn is the eight rowed kind, and weighed, when harvested, 58 

 pounds to the bushel. The green, or unripe corn, was not 

 measured : it was hoed three times, and late in the season ; the 

 few weeds that came up were destroyed. The stalks were 

 topped the middle of September; it was harvested in October, 

 and drawn to the granary and measured, and there were two 

 hundred and thirty-two and a half bushels of ears, and a fraction 

 over. By shelling four bushels of ears, the estimate was, that 



