STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 279 



taraugus, N. Y., in the year 1856, and asks to be considered a 

 competitor for Hon. Horace Greeley's premium of $50. 



1st. Tlie crop on this acre of land in 1855 was corn, without 

 any manure, planted on green-sward, plowed under in the fall of 

 1854; soil, gravelly loam. 



2d. The land was plowed (with horses) the last of April, 1856, 

 10 inches deep; dragged twice; marked off for hills with a hand 

 marker 3 feet apart each way; planted on the 17th day of May; 

 corn appeared above ground on the 22d day of May; 4 kernels 

 were planted to the hill, and 4 stalks were left to each hill; the 

 corn was planted dry, without any previous preparation. 



3d. The variety of corn planted was the Button (yellow) corn, 

 8 quarts of seed being used; 11 J cords (128 cubic feet,) of green 

 barn yard manure (droppings of cattle and horses) and including 

 one-half cord of hog and hen manure, were used, spread broad- 

 cast and in the hill; the former plowed under and the latter put 

 into the hill, covered over two inches deep with earth, upon which 

 the corn was dropped and covered about two inches deep; it was 

 cultivated lengthways and crossways twice, and hoed twice imme- 

 diately after cultivating. 



4th. The corn was cut up the middle (15th to 20th) of Sep- 

 tember, put up into '' shocks," and left in the field about four weeks, 

 when it was carted to the barn and husked, and the corn put into 

 common, out-door slat cribs to dry; there were ten loads of stalks 

 of half a ton each, valued at $4 per ton, or a total of §20. 



5th. There were 152 bushels of ears of corn; 76 bushels of 

 shelled corn, by a sealed one-half bushel measure; weighed 63 lbs. 

 to the bushel, which, at 56 lbs. (vide Revised Statutes N. Y. ) 

 would make 85 A bushels per acre by weight, 



6th. The amount of land was just one acre, as per survey of 

 W. D. Armstrong, Surveyor, annexed to this statement. 



7th. The fullowing is a statement of the expenses, including 

 the nuni])er of days work of the team and my own labor. 



One acre of com in account with Fraiiklin B. Spaulding. 

 1856. Db. 



April 2b -^ 26. 3 days witli tcun drawing manure, 2 



horses and wai^on, $3 75 



" 28. 3 days' labor of self, at 75c., 2 25 



*' 30. 1 day })lowiiig, 2 liorses and plow, 1 25 



