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mowed several years ^N^thout top-dressing. Manure was har- 

 rowed in, and the fertilizer put in the hill. Yield, sixty-eight 

 bushels per acre. 



Cr. 



127 bushels at sixty cents $76 20 



Corn-fodder 24 00 



$100 20 



Dr. 

 rioughing $3 00 



Carting manure 3 00 



Ilarrowirg 1 50 



Planting 2 50 



Hoeing 9 00 



Cutting and stooking 3 00 



Husking 6 35 



Manure 22 00 



Stockbridge fertilizer 13 50 



63 35 



Net profit $36 85 



North Amherst, Nov. 15, 1880. AuSTIN EaSTMAN. 



CORN RAISED BY GEORGE L. COOLEY, SUNDERLAND. 



The land on which the corn grew was a peat or muck 

 meadow that had been drained by surface ditches, and also 

 improved by carting on to it in former years considerable 

 loam and sand. I value the land at a hundred dollars per 

 acre. The land had been down to grass for six or eight 

 years previous, being top-dressed with barnyard manure two 

 or three times. The land was ploughed partly in the fall of 

 1879, and the remainder in the spring of 1880, with no 

 apparent difference in the crop. The depth of furrow was 

 from four to seven inches, or about six inches average 

 depth. The piece was manured with twelve two-horse loads 

 of manure, sledded out the previous winter, and left in 

 piles : these were forked over once before using, and cov- 

 ered with dirt scraped up about the pile. No other fertilizer 

 was used. May 17 the soil was pulverized thoroughly with 

 a wheel-harrow, occupying the team four hours. The 

 field was rowed both ways with a furrowing plough : time 

 used in furrowing, three hours and one-half for man and 

 horse. Putting out manure in the hill, one man with horse 

 ten hours ; amount used in eacli hill, a medium shovelful. 



