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the cob 72,9G0 pounds. The shelled corn weighed 60,800 

 pounds, "which, at fifty-six pounds to a busliel, makes 1,085 

 bushels and forty pounds, or eighty-six bushels and a half, 

 per acre. There were also upwards of twenty tons of fod- 

 der. Taking out its value at eight dollars per ton, the cost 

 per bushel of the corn was twenty-five cents and a third. 



Job R. Smith of Coleraine raised an acre of Holden corn, 

 planting three feet four inches by three feet apart, using 

 three hundred pounds of Quinnipiac fertilizer : four stalks 

 were left in a hill ; harvested three hundred and sixty-foiir 

 stooks weighing twenty pounds each, which gave 7,280 

 pounds of fodder. Corn weighed 4,489 pounds, or eighty 

 bushels and nine pounds. There were also five bushels of 

 soft corn. Deducting whole cost, including interest, and 

 taxes on land, from the value of crop, and making allowance 

 for value of the fodder, the corn cost twenty-eight cents a 

 bushel. No extra labor was put upon the piece. Farmers 

 should raise rather than buy : they can raise an extra acre 

 each year. 



R. N. Oakman of Montague took five acres on Montague 

 Plain. Ploughing cost five dollars ; harrowing, a dollar and 

 a quarter ; guano, twenty-one dollars ; plaster and seed, 

 three dollars ; planting, six dollars ; hoeing twice, four dol- 

 lars and three-quarters ; cutting and stooking, six dollars 

 and a quarter; husking, six dollars and a half; interest and 

 taxes, seven dollars and a quarter : total for the five acres, 

 seventy-one dollars and a half. Harvested six tons, worth 

 seven dollars a ton (forty-two dollars), which leaves cost of 

 corn twenty -nine dollars and a half. As a hundred and 

 thirty-eight bushels (shelled) were harvested, the cost was 

 twenty-one cents and a half a bushel. In making the above 

 calculations, three dollars were allowed per day for man and 

 team, a dollar and a quarter for a man alone, and seventy- 

 five cents for a boy. 



Mr. Oakman's second set of figures were concerning a 

 field of eight acres of river-land. The land in question has 

 had no manure put on it for over twenty years, and has 

 raised corn every third year. The corn is fertilized by 

 ploughing under a second crop of clover. The land seems 

 as good as it was a score of years ago : at any rate, it pro- 

 duces good crops. The past year the corn he raiiied there 

 cost twenty cents per bushel. 



