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scrapings of our barn yard. Our corn looked well, except about 

 one-third of it, which did not come. Wc planted it over the 

 10th of June, and on the 30th of July watered the whole with 

 urine and other slops, applying about a pint to the hill. This 

 caused it to make rapid strides in growth, for the remainder of 

 the season. The whole got ripe." 



R. W. Lihht/s statcme7it. " Planted fifteen bushels of Peach 

 blows and old white potatoes on one acre. The soil is a sandy 

 loam, light and friable, with an open, pebbly subsoil, and free 

 from stone. Plowed about eight inches deep; planted in rows 

 three and one-half feet apart, and two feet between the hills. 

 Produce, two hundred and fifty bushels; no manure." 



Expense ; plowing, . . . . $6 00 



Seed, . . . . . 3 00 



Hoeing, . . . . . 5 00 



Interest on laud, . , . . 5 00 



$18 00 



Statement of E. B. Himt, " Planted one acre of corn on 

 the 25th day of May, on a light and friable loam, eighteen inches 

 deep, underlaid with a hard, impervious subsoil. The soil is of 

 a light color, and quite stony, the stones being a mixture of 

 large and small. Corn was grown on it the year previous, and 

 it was plowed about four inches deep, and about six cords of 

 equal parts of hog and barn yard manure applied. The variety 

 planted was the Button, in rows four feet apart, and in hills 

 three feet apart. It was hoed twice and top-dressed with 

 ashes. Cut it up at the roots, in October. Produce, one hun- 

 dred and twenty-five bushels of cars." 



Cost; plowing, . . . . $5 00 



Manure, 

 Ashes, 

 Hoeing, 

 Harvesting, 



Produce. G2J bushels at $1.00, 



12 00 



1 40 



8 00 



G 00 



$32 40 

 62 50 



Profit, 



. $30 10 



