126 



Interest on land, estimating the average value of 



land over the county at $10 per acre 60 



Ploughing and harrowing once $1 00 



Soaring and harrowing in 20 ^* 



Thrashing, including all incidental expenses 1 50 



Seed, one and a quarter bushels 62^ 



Cutting, binding, shocking and stacking 1 00 " 



Hauling 25 



$5 17^ 

 Credit : 



By 15 bushels of wheat, at 40 cents $6 00 



By value of straw 1 50 



$7 50 



Profit $2 



10. Of CoiiN. — There is no subject that has given rise to 

 more animated discussions in our society, than the proper 

 mode of cultivating corn. By its cultivation a large portion 

 of our lands has been exhausted, and this exhaustion, in the 

 opinion of many of us, has resulted not only from taking the 

 corn and fodder from the ground, but also from the exposure 

 of the soil, by frequent ploughings, to the sun and atmospheric 

 influences. To avoid so many ploughings was thought to be 

 a desirable object, both to save labor and decrease this expo- 

 sure. On this question of exhaustion by tillage, I find some 

 remarks in the essay of Dr. Lee, on soils, already referred to, 

 so appropriate that I may be pardoned for quoting some of 

 them. 



" Tillage can do much to promote fertility ; but it cannot 

 create something from nothing nor change one elementary 

 body into another. But tillage is usually more efficient to 

 impoverish an arated field than to improve it ; and it is this 

 deteriorating effect of cultivation, irrespective of all crops, 

 to which we desire to call particular attention. The chemi- 



