60 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Ck. 



113|| bushels corn at sixty-five cents .... $73 81 

 4,480 pounds fodder at eight dollars per ton . . 17 92 



$91 73 



Profit of one acre $G1 73 



E. C. Parker. 



South Amhekst, Nov. 18, 1880. 



CORN RAISED BY H. C. WEST, HADLEY. 



The field of corn I present for premium contains five acres. 

 It was cleared twenty-three years ago of a heavy growth of 

 hard and white pine and white oak timber, sowed to wheat 

 the next fall, and pastured since with sheep and cattle. 

 Ploughed early in the spring, and planted from the 20th of 

 May to the 2d of June with three dollars' worth of fertilizers 

 per acre in the hill, — one acre with phosphate, three with fish 

 and potash, and one with chemicals, — all of as near the 

 same value as possible without any perceptible difference 

 in the yield of corn. It was cut up the second week in Sep- 

 tember. The amount of corn was determined as follows : 

 Two rods were selected and measured, as near an average 

 as possible ; and, the last of August, the corn was topped, 

 and allowed to stand until Oct. 2G, when it was picked and 

 husked. Weighed the same day eighty-three pounds, allow- 

 ing seventy pounds to the bushel, which gives ninety-four 

 bushels and sixty pounds per acre. The corn was shelled 

 Nov. 1, and the corn and cob weighed again, giving fourteen 

 pounds and three-fourths of cob, and sixty-five pounds and 

 one-fourth of corn. A stricken bushel weighed fifty-six 

 pounds and a half, making ninety-three bushels and twelve 

 pounds per acre. 



The corn was planted with sixteen hills to the rod, making 

 thirty-two hills on the two rods measured. Whole number of 

 cars, 253 ; to each hill, 7-^^. Largest number in one hill, 

 nine; smallest number, two, — on one stalk. Allowing the 

 fodder for husking, and no rent for the land, as it is worth 

 more than when I commenced, the account will stand about 

 as follows : — 



