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fifty -six pounds to the biishe], af* the ]>r(»duct of one ucre. 1 iiieau, 

 of course, our common kinds of corn. 



Prof. J. A. Xash. — In my native town of Conway, Mass., J once 

 saw two premiums awarded — one for 137-| bushels of corn from an 

 acre, and tlie other for 124^ bushels. In the measurement a single 

 rod was selected, and the estimate was made from that. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — When I lived in western Xew York 1 heard 

 large stories ; in fact, one man asserted that he had raised 100 shelled 

 bushels to the acre, but his reputation fo-r truth-telling was not as 

 high as that of the lad in Virginia who hacked liis father's cherry 

 trees. In all my travels I have never seen 100 bushels grown on 

 an acre, and I v.'ould go a thousaiul miles to see it, but I am afraid I 

 shall die without the sight. I don't believe this (quantity was ever 

 raised from a single acre, either in Sussex or in that Eutopia of the 

 world, that blessed Canaan of the farmer, Saleui C<.>., N. J. 



Mr. II. L. Eeade. — I live in eastern Connecticut, where tolerably 

 good crops are the rule, and the average there is not mure than thirty- 

 live bushels, though we have grown as high as sixty. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman.— In all the wonderful tales we hear I notice a 

 squai-e rod ^vas chosen, measuring so as to take in an extra row of 

 hilts. This was measured green and the amount multi])lied by 160. 

 Some years ago the Salem county farmers, believing they could 

 beat the rest of the round world on corn, formed a committee ; David 

 Petit was chairman, I believe, they went to all the cribs of the best 

 corn growers, measured the bushels, took the number of acres 

 planted, and ciphered the average result. It fell at sixty-seven 

 bushels. ] believe ; and this statement I had from David Petit's 

 lips, whose every word I believe, although he plows but five inches 

 d«ep. 



George Geddes is counted as about as good a grain farmer as there 

 is in Xew York ; he often puts fifty loads of manure to the acre of 

 good clover sod, and turns all under for corn. He says he was never 

 able to take over eighty-seven bushels from an acre, and neighbors 

 came miles to look at it, and called it the wonder of the season. 



Produce ok EiGnxiiEX Ackes. 



Mr. Erastus Ximberly, Monroe, Mich., cultivates eighteen acres 



o'i land. He keeps one horse and five cows, three of which he 



milked during the season of 1869, and in addition to selling $9.25 



worth of milk and cream, made 936 pounds of 1)utter, beside 



