STATEMENTS ON CORN. 55 



CORN RAISED BY W. A. WILSON, NORTH HADLEY. 



The land measured five acres, and is valued at fifteen dol- 

 lars per acre. Improvement of land pays rent and taxes. 

 Stover pays harvesting and husking. 



Dr. 



Ploughing and harrowing . 



Furrowing and planting 

 Stockbridge fertilizer . 

 lloeiug and cultivating once 



$G7 25 



Cost per acre 13 45 



Cr. 



376 baskets, forty pounds per basket, or 15,040 pounds, 

 which, reckoning seventy pounds per bushel, would 

 make 214 bushels of sixty pounds at sixty cents . •'$128 91 



Or, per acre 25 78 



W. A. Wilson. 



North Hadlet, Nov. 18, 1880. 



CORN-CROP STATEMENT OF JOB R. SMITH. 



[Deer field-Valley Society.] 



The amount of land in corn, one acre, having a soil of 

 sandy loam, and inclining a little to the south and east. 

 Value of land per acre, fifty dollars. Grass was cut on the 

 piece for seven years previous to the present crop, with no 

 applications of fertilizers for the grass-crops in any form. 



April 29, 1880, I ploughed the above-stated piece of land, 

 but once plouglied, about five inches in depth. May 8, 1880, 

 I harrowed the piece thoroughly Avith rotating harrow. 

 Marked the piece into rows, running north and south, three 

 feet and four inches apart. April 29, 1880, at time of plough- 

 ing the land, or before ploughing, I spread on the sw^ard 

 thirty loads of vault-manure made from my dairy of cows ; 

 and at time of planting the corn. May 10 and 11, which was 

 the variety known as the Holclen corn, planted diy, I put the 

 hills three feet apart, putting five kernels in each hill. 



The manner of planting was as follows : I first put a table- 

 spoonful of special fertilizer in each hill, covering it with a 

 hoeful of soil ; then pressed the same with my foot, making 

 a suitable place for the seed, which was dropped, and covered 

 with about two inches of fresh soil. 



