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way, with ashes and plaster in the hill, at the rate of two parts 

 of ashes to one of plaster. It was hoed twice, and cut up the 

 last week in September. The leaves were touched by the frost 

 each month of its growth. The 12th of June, when it was 

 ready for hoeing, it was cut down to the ground. Most of it 

 grew again, but not large enough to hoe till the 23d and 24th 

 of June. The night of the 4th of July it was touched by the 

 frost again, also on the last of August. The middle of Septem- 

 ber the frost was so hard that some of the later was injured. 

 Besides the cold, unfavorable season which checked its growth, 

 seventy-five turkeys and hens destroyed a portion of it near the 

 house and barn. Considering these obstacles the crop turns out 

 much better than we expected. Three hundred and seventy- 

 three bushels of ears have been husked from this lot, one 

 bushel of ears yielding twenty-one quarts of shelled corn. At 

 this rate there would be two hundred and fortv-four bushels 

 and twenty-five quarts on the lot, or a fraction over eighty-one 

 and one-third bushels per acre. 



Value of 244| bushels of corn, at $1 per 

 bushel, ....... 



Corn fodder, at $10 per acre, 



64 loads of manure, 

 Ploughing, .... 

 Planting, .... 

 Seed and plaster, . ft. 

 Hoeing twice, 



Cutting, .... 

 Husking, at 3 cts. per bushel, 

 Interest on land, . 



^244 75 

 30 00 



1274 75 



$32 00 

 7 00 



89 19 



Net profit, . 



$185 56 



South Wilbraham, October 12, 1859. 



