STATEMENTS ON CORN. 67 



First time hoeiug and cultivating . 

 Second time hoeing and cultivating 

 Third time hoeing (one hand one day) . 

 Seed-corn, eight quarts at one dollar per bushel 

 Cutting and harvesting corn 



Total cost of crop as .per schedule . 



$35 69 



The weather was warm and dry, with an occasional shower 

 of rain. 



I have used the " Holden corn " for two years as my main 

 crop of corn. At second hoeing I thinned tlie stand to four 

 stalks in each hill. A very large proportion of the stalks 

 have two ears of corn on each. I found by experiment that 

 this corn yielded a very small per cent of cob. I took two 

 bushels of ears of corn, and the weight of the two bushels 

 was eighty pounds. I shelled the same, 'and got of corn 

 sixty-eight pounds, leaving only, in weight of cob for two 

 bushels of ears, twelve pounds, or six pounds to the bushel 

 of ears. This is why I like the Holden corn. I prefer to 

 raise corn rather than cob. 



In summing up the expenses of this crop of corn, I find a 

 total debt of $59.55 ; add to this the interest on the value 

 of the land (say $50), or 83, and we have a total cost of 

 $62.55. Comparing the value of crop, etc., I find I have in 

 value $95.24 ; add to this one-third of the value of the ma- 

 nure left in soil, or $10, and I have a credit of $105.24. 

 Balance in favor of crop, $42.69. Cost of raising this corn 

 per bushel, twenty-eight cents and small fraction. 



Job R. Smith. 



CoLEBAiNE, Dec. 28, 1880. 



