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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
east and west, and cultivated with a cultivator and hoed twice. 
The kind of corn raised is the Dutton, a portion of the product 
of the same field being exhibited at the State Fair, and drew 
the premium for “Dutton Seed Corn. 7 ’ The product of the one 
acre was 181 bushels of ears of corn by measure, or 90J bush¬ 
els of corn. A portion of said crop has sinee been sold by 
weight, and found to overrun largely in weight. 
EXPENSE OF CULTIVATION. 
Drawing manure, 1£ days,. $2 00 
Plowing, . 1 25 
Marking . 25 
Planting . 1 00 
Seed, £ bushel,.. 25 
Cultivating and hoeing,. 3 00 
Cutting up,. 1 00 
Husking,. 5 00 
Total,. $13 75 
Deduct value of cornstalks, equal to one ton of wild hay,. 5 00 
Cost of corn,. $8 75 
Product 90J bushels, costing about 10 cts. per bushel, ex¬ 
clusive of interest on land or value of manure. 
(Signed,) Eli Stilson. 
CARROTS—STATEMENT OF ELI STILSON. 
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The variety of soil on which the carrots were raised is a 
black loam, with a small amount of sand. The subsoil is clay. 
Mode of culture: The land was manured at the rate of about 
16 two-horse loads of rotton manure to the acre, and plowed 
twice very deep and left in beds one rod wide. The land was 
then raked with an iron tooth rake to make it of very fine 
tilth, and sown with a hand drill in rows fourteen inches apart; 
time of sowing about the 15th of May. Hoed twice in sum¬ 
mer, and harvested about the 10th of November. The product 
of the one-fourth of an acre was 421 bushels. 
