No. 85,] 181 



By 2 loads of pumpkins, 2 . 00 



Deduct one-fourth value of manure for succeeding crops, 2 . 69 



$91.85 

 Cost of cultivation, j 31 ,00 



Nett profit, $60.85 



MR. BECKWITh's statement. 



Statement of a crop of corn, raised by Rufus Beckwith, of Henrietta, 

 and which yielded 126 bushels to the acre, according to his affidavit j 

 from the proceedings of Monroe County Society : 



The kind of soil on which my crop of corn was grown, is a dark 

 gravelly loam, approximating to black sand. The previous crop was 

 wheat, two years previous seeded with timothy, and pastured two 

 years. No manure to previous crop. Manure to this crop about 

 thirty wagon loads of coarse barn-yard manure. Plowed once about 

 eight or ten inches deep, and harrowed thoroughly the first days in 

 May. Planted the first week in May in drills about three feet six 

 inches apart, and from twelve to eighteen inches in the drill. The 

 seed was the large eight rowed variety ; dropped about four grains in 

 a hill, and used about three pecks of seed to the acre. Cultivated be- 

 tween the drills for first hoeing, and plowed two furrows between the 

 drills the last hoeing, (there were many hills missing, having been 

 destroyed by worms. ) Cut the stalks by topping the corn in Sep- 

 tember. Harvested about the first of October by husking on the hill 

 or drills, and took from the same ground 20 cart loads of pumpkins. 



The whole expense per acre of producing and harvesting the crop, 

 as near as can be stated, including the value of the manure and seed, 

 the labor of men and teams at cost, or at current rates of wages, 

 would not exceed Jif teen dollars. 



MR. Curtis' statement. 



Statement of a crop of corn raised by Charles H. Curtis, of Lewis 



county, giving 114i bushels to the acre ; from the proceedings of the 



Agricultural Society of that county : 



It was planted the 7th May, 1844, after corn, with a corn planter, 

 the rows were six inches apart and the hills ten inches, and a space 

 of two feet between every three rows. After the first corn was har- 

 vested in 1843, fifteen loads of barn manure were drawn on the acre, 

 and just before planting I drew on six loads of leached ashes. I was 

 41 days in planting it j in hoeing the first time, lOi days j second 



