grasses, abounding with snakes and malaria, tlirongli 

 •which a serpentine branch made its sluggish way. 



My first work was to secure thorough drainage by means 

 of a canal and nnderdrains, then to clearing and levelling, 

 and third to lime and br^ak up with a two-horse plough, 

 all of which was the work of the summer. In November 

 a ' heavy coating of cow-hoiise manure was applied, and 

 turned under vrith a two-horse plough- In January the 

 same process was repeated, and again in March, and the 

 subsoil plough used. In April it was necessary to plough 

 under a luxurious growth Of weeds, lime being first ap- 

 ■ plied as at first. In May the hands were again on the 

 ground with manure carts, two-horse ploughs and hoes ; 

 after ploughing another coat of manure in, the land was 

 harrowqd perfectly level, and laid off thirty-six inches 

 apart; throughout each furrow, Peruvian Guano, salt and 

 . plaster were sprinkled at the rate of 200 lbs. per acre of 

 each. The seed corn, after being soaked in a solution of 

 nitre, was rolled in plaster and dropped ten inches apart 

 ih rows, covered with rakes and the land rolled. Five 

 days after planting, this corn was up and growing. As 

 soon as it was large enough to bear ploughing it was run 

 around with a long, narrow plough, followed by the hoe. 

 There wag nothing remarkable in the culture of this lot ; 

 it was' kept clean by shallow and level culture until it be- 

 gan to shoot and tassel ; irrigation was then resorted to 

 by conveying fl-om a reservoir a gentle flow of water 

 through every alternate row. Thus the land was kept 

 moist and th^ plant ih a growing §tate. 



The Agricultural Society awarded the premium for the 

 lai'gest yield to ' this lot, there being 147 bushels per acre 

 produced on two acres. ' 



The following year the same experiment was tepeated, 

 except that the rows were thirty instead of thirty-six 

 inches apart. 



Inasmuch as there were ^oubts entertained as to the 

 correctness of the first crop, we were the more careful in 

 ■haviUg a larger committee to measure and report on this. 

 Their award was the fifst premium as before, the yield 

 . being 20P bushels and 12 quarts of good corn on a single 

 acre. , I'he land \vas surveyed by the City Surveyor. 



From' the foregoing remarks and experiments the follow- 

 ing conclusipns may be drawn': 



l^at succiess in corn growing depends much upon the 



