FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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The corn weighed sixty pounds to a bushel, and the propor- 

 tion of corn to cob was as eighty-four to one hundred. The 

 weight of ears required for a bushel was sixty-six pounds 

 and two-thirds. 



Attached to this was the following statement of the cost 

 of raising corn in Valley, Neb. It is from the Whitraore 

 Brothers. The amount of land considered is an acre, worth 

 twelve dollars and a half. 



Dr. 



$7 65 



Ck. 



110 bushels at twenty-three cents per bushel 

 Fodder ....... 



525 30 

 1 00 



26 30 



Iset profit lis 05 



The cost of the corn was a trifle less than seven cents per 

 bushel ; 2,722 hills were planted to the acre. 



It is curious to notice that the cost of the Nebraska corn 

 was a little more than one-third of the Franklin-county 

 corn, and the price a little less than one-third, showing the 

 Franklin-county corn the more profitable. 



F. H. Williams of Sunderland gave a statement concern- 

 mg his field entered for the special premium. It contained 

 a hundred and sixty-one rods of land bordering on the Con- 

 necticut; was in grass in 1878, and corn in 1879; manured 

 with twenty-one one-horse loads of stable manure spread 

 evenly ; planted, four by three feet apart, the eight-rowed 



