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one way, and two and a half the other, not over four kernels ia 



a hill : well hoed twice. 



Cost: To plow it about 12 days, 



To get on the manure and harrowing, 



Planting — G davs work, 



To hoe it cost not far from sixteen days' work. 



To cut and shell, 6 days, 



To husk it, 10 da}'*, . 



Total expense, 



Statement of Joseph G. Su-an, Denmark. The soil where 

 I raised my corn is gravelly loam ; it was plowed in the fall of 

 1854; in the spring of 1855 spread on three cords of strawey 

 manure, plowed it in, and planted with.potatoes; after digging 

 potatoes plowed again, in the spring of 1856 spread on eight 

 and one-third cords of stable manure, plowed it in, and planted 

 with corn the 17th of May; after the corn got up, planted beans 

 with the corn between hills; corn planted three and a half feet 

 apart, four and five kernels in a hill. 



One acre of land. Dr. I Land, 



To 8^ cords manure, $25 00 By 8 bushels beans, 



55 50 

 Deduct credits other than 

 corn, 41 00 



Manure left in ground, 

 5 bushels corn at half 

 price. 



Cr. 

 ^16 00 

 10 00 

 12 50 



2 50 



41 00 

 87^ bushels good corn, 87 50 



$128 50 



$14 50 

 You will see that if I have made no mistake, 87^ bushels of 

 corn cost me $14.50. 



