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Supposed market value, fifty cents per bushel, $65 65 



Also raised on the same acre two loads of pumpkins, sup- 

 posed value, 2 00 



The stalks, 8 00 



$75 65 



Cost of plowing, $2 00 



do harrowing, 1 00 



35 loads manure, 4s., 17 50 



Cost of seed, 35 



do planting, 75 



do hoeing twice, 2 50 



do plaster and applying, 50 



do cutting and shocking, 1 00 



do harvesting, 4 00 



Interest on land valued at $50 per acre, 3 50 



33 10 



Deduct value of manure retained in soil, 8 75 



24 35 



Nett profit, $51 30 



Soil, gravelly loam and alluvial ; subsoil, retentive ; has been in 

 meadow some ten years, and has produced very large crops. Last 

 April drew on twenty loads common barn manure ; plowed the first 

 days of May ; then drew and spread on fifteen loads of fine barn ma- 

 nure ; then harrowed thoroughly, and furrowed exactly three feet 

 apart each way ; planted the seed dry, four kernels in a hill ; planted the 

 14th day of May ; when it first came up applied leached ashes ; after a 

 few days applied plaster ; harrowed it and hoed ; second time plowed and 

 hoed it ; took no more than ordinary care in hoeing and the tillage 

 generally. The above statement includes all the corn raised on the 

 above described acre of land ; it is remarkably sound, and probably 

 there are not more than five bushels that is not merchantable at this 

 time. 



Cambridge, Oct. IZth, 1845. 



JOHN MCNAUGHTON. 



John McNaughton, of the town of Salem, of this county, presents 

 for premium the produce of one acre of corn, being one hundred and 

 twenty-eight bushels and eighteen quarts of shelled corn. 



