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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Value of crop : — 

 One acre of land, 110.82 bushels of corn, at $i per 



bushel, 1110 82 



One acre of land, 5,310 lbs. of stalks, at |12 per ton, . 31 86 

 One acre of land, 4,792 lbs. of buts and husks, at |6 



per ton, 14 37 



$157 05 



Expenses : — 

 Interest on land, at $200 per acre. 

 Taxes on land, about .... 



Nine and a half cords of manure, at $6 per cord, 



Ploughing, 



Spreading manure, cultivating and harrowing. 

 Crossing out, manuring in hill, and planting. 

 One peck of seed, ..... 

 Cultivating and hoeing twice, . 

 Cutting and getting in stocks, . 

 Harvesting, ...... 



Net profit, (after paying for the manure, $49.20,) $157 05 

 per acre ; or if, as is usual, we deduct one-third of the manure, 

 there will be a net profit of $68.20 per acre. 



You will observe that we have made quite a deduction in 

 weight from the buts and husks since you weighed them. Then 

 they were somewhat moist, but have since been drying on rails 

 over the barn floor. The husks when perfectly dry, weigh 53|, 

 instead of 68 lbs. to the row, making, as stated, 4,792 lbs. per 

 acre. 



The way we manage our corn fodder, drying the top stalks 

 under cover and salting down the buts and husks, we are confi- 

 dent, from past experience, makes them worth more to us than 

 we have estimated them. 



Milton, November 14, 1856. 



