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year before, ^vas much the best, almost double to that 

 planted on the sward laud, of whicli one measured acre 

 yielded 7.200 pounds of ears, weiglied when I carried into 

 the corn chamber. I shelled seventy pounds of ears and 

 it made two quarts over a bushel, which makes a fraction 

 over 109 bushels of shelled corn. 



The whole labor, including drawing the manure, done on 

 the acre amounts to $28,00, seed and interest on the land 

 $•±.00 making $32,00 ; fifteen cords of barn manure was 

 used on the acre, and estimating it at the highest price, 

 $4,00 per cord it would be $G0,00. Now suppose we get 

 one-third of the strength of the manure the first year, it 

 would be $20,00 ; now reckon the fodder to be equal to 

 two tons of hay, it would be $20,00, just equal to what the 

 manure exhausted, so that the whole cost of raising 109 

 bushels of corn was $32,00. The corn was harvested the 

 last of October, and was in good order to grind. If I had 

 spread the fifteen cords of manure on two acres, I should 

 have got (according to former experiments made,) in a 

 favorable season, fifty bushels to an acre and tlic labor 

 would be double except drawing the manure and harvest- 

 ing, and the cost of raising would be fifty-four cents per 

 bushel, while the cost the present year is twenty-nine cents 

 per bushel. JOIIX IBROWN. 



December 15, 1856. 



