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22d and 23d. Furrowed it for planting 



Five hands, planting 



One day rolling, after planting 



May 17th. Commenced cultivating with 3 hands, 



One hand replanting and uncovering 



20th. Two hands half a day, cultivating 



27th. Four plows one day 



One hand replanting and uncovering 



June 6th. Plows half a day 



17th. Three days plowing 



Three days harrowing the corn 



18th. One day plowing, three days harrowing. • 



July 2d and 3d. Four days plowing 



Two days thinning and suckering 



October 27th. Commenced gathering, finished on 

 the 7th of Nov.; husked on the stalk; hauled 

 one-half of it four miles — cost 



Cost of seed corn 



About three acres of the field had hauled on it 

 forty-five loads of manure; cost of hauling and 

 spreading 



$98 70 



18 75 



Cost on the part of tenant $117 45 



It will be seen that the tenant gathered all the corn in this 



case. 



The above described field of corn was planted four feet be- 

 tween the hills; from three to five stalks in the hill; the kind 

 of corn, large white Kentucky corn. We measured oflf one 

 acre by surveyor's chains; gathered and measured one row 

 by shelling it. The result proved to be a fraction over one 

 hundred and twenty-five bushels to the acre. The corn was 



sound and dry. 



The part of the field where the acre was selected was ma- 

 nured last spring; it was the upper side of the field, and 



