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BROOM-CORN. 



First premium for the best acre of broom-corn of $5, awarded oa 

 the following statement. 



GEO. GEDDES. 



WILLIAM MCGOWAN. 



Gentlemen — I propose to compete for the premiums offered by you. 

 on two crops, broom-corn and flax. They were both raised in the 

 same field, and the soil much the same. The ground is low and wet. 

 I have put three blind ditches through the field where the crops grew. 

 The soil is black loam and naturally rich ; the previous crop to the 

 broom-corn and flax was Indian corn, planted on green sward turned 

 over, then rolled and dug one way ; planted in May and dragged 

 well between the rows, and hoed once ; then in September the corn 

 was cut up, and hauled off from the ground in October ; the ground 

 was ploughed well. 



I will give the cultivation and expense of the broom-corn crop, and 

 kept it on my farm record. 



Cultivation and Expense. 



Dr. 



To 25 loads of long manure, been piled in the yard and about 

 half rotted, at 1^. per load, (the load of manure was reck- 

 oned at 82 solid feet per load,) $3 13 



hauling and spreading manure, 3 13 



ploughing one day with horses, « 1 00 



dragging half day, 50 



marking out the ground for planting, three feet by one and a 



half feet, 50 



8^^^. seed, 13 



planting 5 days at 4s., 2 50 



dragging between the rows h day, 50 



hoeing and thinning first time, left from 8 to 10 stalks in a 



hill, 6 days, , 3 00 



dragging for second hoeing, 25 



hoeing last time, 4 days, 2 00 



tableing the corn, 5 h days, 2 75 



cutting the broom-corn, 5 i days, 2 75 



binding and hauling in, = 75 



paid for scraping off the broom-corn seed by the job done by 



machinery, , 3 00 



cleaning up the seed, , 50 



interest on land at $40 per acre, 3 50 



Total, .129 89 



