STATEMENTS ON CORN. 53 



Time used in planting, one man fourteen hours. Com- 

 menced hoeing June 11. Labor, first hoeing, one man six 

 hours ; cultivating, two hours and one-half. Second hoeing, 

 July 9, one man ten hours ; cultivating, three hours and one- 

 half. No other labor was expended on this piece of corn 

 till cutting in September ; and, as I frequently let out corn to 

 cut and husk for the fodder, I made no further account of 

 labor. Care was taken to have the stocks of uniform size, — 

 each to contain eight bundles. The piece was measured by a 

 surveyor before and after cutting and setting up, and con- 

 tained a hundred and ten stooks. In October, ten of these 

 stocks were taken in different parts of the field to get a fair 

 average, and the product kept separate when husked, and 

 spread in a chamber to dry. The ten stooks yielded nearly 

 fourteen baskets of corn, which, shelled Nov. 20, yielded just 

 seven bushels by measure, and the same by weight, calling 

 fifty-six pounds a bushel. This result multiplied by eleven 

 gives seventy-seven bushels of shelled corn to the acre. 



The estimated cost of labor up to harvesting is as fol- 

 lows : — 



Dr. 



Ploughing i52 00 



Hauling manure ........ 2 00 



Harrowing 1 20 



Furrowing out 75 



Putting out manure 2 25 



Planting • ... 2 10 



Cultivating for first hoeing ...... 56 



First hoeing 90 



Cultivating for second hoeing 78 



Second hoeing 1 50 



'o 



Total for labor $14 04 



Value of manure, eighteen dollars. Calling one-half left 



in the land, we charge the crop 9 00 



$23 04 



Cr. 



Value of seventy-seven bushels of corn at sixty -five cents , . 50 05 



Profit 827 01 



Now we deduct six dollars for interest, and one dollar and 

 forty cents for taxes, and we still have a profit of $19.61. 



George L. Cooley. 



Sunderland, Nov. 20, 1880. 



