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four inches apart each way. The yield was at the rate of 83^ 

 bushels to the acre, and the net profit $62.50. 



Value of crop : — 

 450 bushels of sound corn, at |1, . . $450 00 



15 tons fodder, |90; 8 bush, soft corn, .|2, 92 00 



$542 00 



Expenses : — 

 Manure, 180 ; applying it, $12.50 ; seed, $1.50 ; 



planting, $3, $97 00 



Ploughing and harrowing, $10 ; hoeing, $12.50 ; 



harvesting, $40 ; interest and taxes, $45, . 107 50 



$204 50 



Net profit on 5| acres, . . $337 50 



Sunderland, November 15, 1856. 



FRANKLIN. 



Statement of Ebenezer Bardivell. 



The crop of corn offered for premium was raised on land 

 which lies with a gentle slope toward the east. The piece con- 

 tains two acres and seven rods, and had been down to grass for 

 two or three years previous to the spring of 1856, with no ma- 

 nure at all. The product of grass in 1855 was over two tons, 

 per acre. In the spring of 1856, hauled fifty loads of long 

 manure, spread it evenly over the ground, took one of Ruggles, 

 Nourse & Mason's side-hill ploughs and turned it under, plough- 

 ing about eight inches deep, harrowed enough to make it light 

 and mellow, then took one of Billings's improved planters on 

 the 23d day of May, and planted it, putting the rows three feet 

 apart, and hills forty-four inches ; hoed three times ; harvested 

 in October 2181- bushels of sound corn, and 6 of soft, making, 

 the yield in all 224^ bushels of shelled corn. 



Value of crop : — 



218i bushels corn at 85c. per bushel, . . $186 39 



Corn fodder, . . . . . . 15 00 • 



$201 39 



