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* AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1882 .] 
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From the Connecticut Farmer, Hartford, Conn., Oct. 15th, 1881. 
A Big Corn Crop. 
Mr. S. R. Wells, of Wethersfield, has the largest piece of corn in that town, if not in Hartford County. The variety 
is Blount’s Prolific, and throughout the two acres it stands 13)4 feet on a level, with from one to three ears on the 6talk. 
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manure has been used on the land for five years, the crop being raised with Mapes’ Corn Fertilizer, 5U0 pounds to the 
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season, which might seriously reduce the corn product. 
Yield of the above Crop of Blount Com, 180 bushels of ears to the acre. 
S. R. WELLS, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Conn., Jan. 14, 1882, reports on his com crop described above in the Con¬ 
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“ The yield of my corn crop was one hundred and eighty (180) bushels of ears to the acre. I have shelled three bushels 
of ears, and they gave two bushels and two quarts of shelled corn.” 
Note.— The proportion of shelled com reported by Mr. Wells is very large, even for the Blount corn. The report of 
the committees on the enormous “ Rural Farm ” crop of Blount corn grown in 1880 with the Mapes Manure stated: “ A 
bushel of ears weighs 35 pounds, and gives 17)4 quarts of grain, weighing 28.99 pounds, the cobs weighing 6.01 pounds." 
The actual yield of this crop (reported in Rural New Yorker Jan. 1,1881) was 134.44 bushels shelled corn per acre. 
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