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the spring, the hills were 4 feet apart, no manure was put into 

 the hills except the improved superphosphate of lime ; this was 

 used at the rate of 3 oz., for each hill of corn making about 300 

 lbs. per acve, he planted for tour stalks of corn to each hill. 

 When your committee visited this farm the growth of this corn 

 was surprisingly great, it was of the darkest green color, unusual- 

 ly healthy and vigorous in its appearance, it yielded when 

 gathered 175 bushels of ears to the acre, making about 85 bushels 

 of shelled corn. 



The field presented to your committee the effects of three 

 methods of cultivation ; first the improved superphosphate of 

 lime alone had been applied to the whole field, except about one 

 third of an acre ; next some 8 rows of corn had been manured in 

 the hill fr )m the hog pen aloue, and some 4 or 5 rows of corn had 

 been planted and grown without manure of any kind ; the last 

 method of cultivation presented a sorry appearance indeed for a 

 crop; the corn manured from the hog pen was deficient, on an 

 average not more than two stalks appeared in the hills, and these 

 were oftentimes assailed by the grub worm, giving them a sickly 

 and unhealthy appearance. The stalks of corn which had been 

 manured by the improved superphosphate of lime were free from 

 disease, and had not been attacked by the grub worm, or any 

 other enemy. 



Adjacent to this field of corn was growing a field of carrots 

 which had been dressed with the improved superphosphate of 

 lime at the rate of about 300 lbs. per acre ; we have since been 

 informed that Mr. Shillingsford gathered 900 bushels of carrots 

 from this field which was about | of an acre of ground ; the sorts 

 were Red altringham and White belgrain in about equal quantities, 

 they were sown early in the spring and hoed sufiiciently to keep 

 them entirely free from weeds. 



In a field adjacent to his house, Mr. Shillingsford exhibited to 

 your committee, 3 acres of timothy, it was of an uncommon growth; 

 he informed your committee that in .the spring he sowed on this 

 field about 600 lbs of improved superphosphate of lime, intending 

 to plow the same under for a ground crop, that owing to some de- 

 lay the field lay after tlie manuring about a fortnight, and to his 



