STATEMENTS ON CORN. 51 



Dr. 



Cost of labor up to planting §65 00 



Cost of labor up to time of husking . . . . 02 50 



Fertilizers 15 00 



$142 50 



Cr. 

 466 bushels of corn at thirty-one cents 144 46 



Hadley, Nov. 12, 1880. 



H. C. West. 



CORN GROWN BY TIMOTHY PUTXAM, LEVERETT. 



The corn we entered was in two pieces. The first con- 

 tained one acre, and was planted with corn last year, produ- 

 cing a good crop. This year it was manured with ten two-horse 

 loads of good compost spread on and harrowed in. Planted 

 May 15, with a "Woodward " planter, in drills, and thinned to 

 four stalks to three feet and one-half. It was. cultivated three 

 times, and hoed twice. It produced, as near as we could esti- 

 mate, 6,027 pounds, which, reckoning seventy pounds to the 

 bushel, gives eighty-six bushels. The other piece, containing 

 one acre and fifty rods, was turf; mowed twice last year, 

 ploughed in the spring, and treated the same as the other 

 piece ; produced 9,163 pounds, or 130 bushels. Considering 

 the improvement of the land as equal to interest and taxes, 

 the account for the two acres and fifty rods is as follows : — 



Dr. 



Ploughing and harrowing 



Eight and a half cords manure, and carting 



Hoeing and cultivating 



Harvesting and husking 



Cr. 



216 bushels of corn at seventy cents 

 Fodder, six and a half tons at six dollars 



$88 35 



190 20 



Balance in favor of the crop, $101.85 ; or the corn reckoned 

 at cost would be twenty -seven cents per bushel. 



Leverett, Nov. 20, 1880. TlMOTHY PUTNAM. 



CORN RAISED BY AUSTIN EASTMAN, NORTH AMHERST. 



The land on which the corn grew was a stiff, loamy, grav- 

 elly soil. It measured three hundred rods, and liad been 



