262 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Seed corn, $0 50 



Interest on land and taxes, . . . . . 5 00 



^45 25 



The valne of the crop is as follows :- 

 86.42 bushels of corn, at $i, 



2 tons of husks, at 18 per ton, . 

 Stalks, 



Deducting cost of crop, 

 Leaves a net profit of . . . . $65 67 

 Dover, October 25, 1856. 



Statement of Charles Breck. 



In order to test the value of Plymouth county or Webster 

 corn, in other localities, I sent some of it last winter to Judge 

 Marcy, of Royalton, Yt., who had seen it growing in this vicinity, 

 and received of him the following account: "I planted all 

 you sent me but two or three ears, (which I reserved to com- 

 pare with my product,) on the 1st day of May, in hills three 

 feet apart each way, the land being sufficiently dry, and manured 

 with common barnyard manure, ploughed in. This was about 

 twenty days earlier than corn is usually planted here. I planted 

 a part of it on White River meadow lands, and the rest about a 

 mile back. It came up well, and grew very rapidly till Septem- 

 ber, when there was a greater growth of it, than I ever saw of 

 any other kind of corn raised here ; but it was not so forward 

 as other kinds, and I thought from appearance it would not get 

 ripe, and, consequently, picked and used a good deal of it while 

 green, for the table. But as the frost held off later than usual, 

 (until the 20th of October,) that part which was planted on the 

 river lands ripened perfectly, every ear being sound, and well 

 filled, and as fine corn as I ever saw, and makes excellent meal. 

 The ears are longer and larger round, and the kernels much 

 longer and larger than those sent me. It will be seen, from the 

 circumstances named, that I cannot ascertain the quantity pro- 

 duced per acre. I think, that on the meadow land the yield 



