No. 85.] 175 



I give a statement of a crop of corn raised by me this year, on two 

 acres and 33y\ square rods as surveyed by J. W. Sawyer. The lot 

 is a steep side hill, descending to the northeast, the soil gravelly loam. 

 It has had but two crops on and those of wheat. About twelve years 

 ago it was summer fallowed and seeded to wheat, and afterwards to 

 clover and timothy, and remained as meadow and pasture until last 

 spring, when I had it plowed for corn. No manure has ever been 

 carted, nor any thing foddered on it. It was well turned over and 

 dragged, and then planted in drills from 3 to 4 feet. I cultivated and 

 hoed it but twice. I had on one acre at the lower side, as near as we 

 could measure by pacing, 246 bushels of ears, and on the remainder 

 1801 bushels, making on the whole 4261 bushels of first rate sound 

 corn, weighing in the ear 44 lbs. to the bushel. When shelled, one 

 bushel of ears made a heaping half bushel, and weighed 30 lbs., there 

 being 14 lbs. cobs. The corn was all measured accurately in my 

 presence by B. E. Snyder and T. Hubbard. We weighed every 

 tenth bushel, (or nearly that,) and found to average 44 lbs. to the 

 bushel. 



Expense of cultivation. 



One bushel of seed, $0 . 75 



Planting with drill half day, 38 



Cultivator and horse 2 days, 2 . 00 



Twelve days hoeing, 50 cts., 6.00 



Ten days cutting up and stocking, 5 .00 



Husking and housing 15 days, 50 cts 7 .50 



121.63 

 Cr. 



By 2131 bushels corn, at 50 cts.,., $106.68 



By 6 loads of pumpkins, 75 cts., 4 .50 



By 2 large stacks of stalks, 10 . 00 



$121.18 

 Deduct expenses, 21 . 63 



Profit of the two acres, $99 .55 



MR. parsons' statement. 



The following interesting and well conducted experiments on five 

 acres of land, by Wm. Parsons of Niagara county, were reported by 

 the Agricultural Society of that county: 



To the Committee on Grain of the JYiagara County ^Agricultural 



Society. 



In accordance with the rules of said society, I present the follow- 



