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CUMBERLAND COUNTY SOCIETY. 



Dr. 



Crop of Corn. 



Cr. 



Plowing 1 day, 



5 cords barnyard manure, at $4, 



100 lbs. super[ihosphato of lime, 



Carting and applying same, 



Harrowing, 



Planting, 



Cultivating twice, 



Hoeing twice, . 



Cutting stalks, and liarvesting, 



Housing, stacking, and husking, 



4 quarts seed, 



Manure left in soil from former crop. 



Interest on land, 



S2 00 I G3 bushels at $1, 



20 00 2^ bushels at 50c., 



3 12 Fodder, 



3 00 I Manure,left in soil for future crops. 



$39 24 



Profit, 



$56 01 



Leonard Shawns Statement. 



My crop of corn, consisting of 37| bushels of 60 pounds to the 

 bushel, was grown on one half of an acre, being at the rate of 75 

 bushels to the acre. The soil on which it grew, was a moist gravelly 

 loam, considerably stony,, of a redish color, fine and mellow, plowed 

 to about nine inches deep. The subsoil is rather a coarse gravel 

 and from fifteen to eighteen inches from the surface. 



Two-thirds of the land was broken up in the fall of 1857, — 

 planted to potatoes without manure in 1858 ; the other third was 

 broken up in the fall of 1858. 



In May last I put on three cords of green barnyard manure and 

 plowed it in ; furrowed the rows three and one half feet apart, put- 

 ting the hills the same distance. I put 1| cords of compost manure 

 in the hills — composted of muck and old yard manure; also, one 

 bushel of plaster and the same amount of ashes put in the hills at 

 the time of planting. Planted the 16th of May with a kind of corn 

 that has been usually planted on this farm for fifty years ; has no 

 particular name; the ears are from eight to sixteen rows each. The 

 seed had not been soaked. I cut the top stalks about the middle of 

 September. Hauled in the corn and husked it the first of October. 



Cr. 



Dr. 



Plowing once — 2 days, 



3 cords barnyard manure, 

 1^ cords other manure. 

 Carting and applying the same. 

 Harrowing, 

 Furrowing and planting. 

 Cultivating twice, 



Hoeing twice — 2 days, 



Dressing and applying the same; 



plaster and iishes, 

 Cutting and harvesting. 

 Husking, 



4 quarts of seed. 

 Interest on land. 



Total, 



Crop of Corn. 



$2 00 37i bushels at 5{;1.15, . 

 9 00 I 2 bushels unsound, 

 3 00 j Fodder, 



2 00 Manure left in soil for future crop, 

 estimated at . 



50 

 75 

 75 



2 00 



50 

 50 

 00 

 17 

 00 



$26 17 



Deduct cost, 



Profit, 



$24 95 



