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teams and horse-tools is about the cost of a horse; viz., 

 $300, and that the interest and depreciation account is 

 twenty-five per cent. We then foot up the following result : — 



Total cost of keeping a horse as above, for one year, . . . $228 00 

 Value of horse labor, at 9 cents an hour, per year, . . . 281 70 



Surplus, $53 70 



And this surplus, and two cords of manure, will be left for 

 the care and shoeincr. 



In the presence of this preposterously large and wastefully 

 calculated assumption, nine cents an hour for horse labor is 

 not an undercharge for the present year. 



Accepting, then, our charges for labor, and our estimated 

 yield, derived from the harvesting of one square rod by a 

 committee, and estimating the amount of stover at twenty- 

 five per cent, more than an ordinary crop ; i. e., one hundred 

 pounds of stover to a bushel of shelled corn, instead of eighty 

 pounds, the average, we present for consideration the follow- 

 ing provisional account : — * 



Total cost of crop stooked in field, $42 76 



Estimated cost of harvesting, 7 20 



Husking at 5 cents a bushel, 8 25 



Total cost, $58 21 



Credit with A^-^^ tons stover, at $8, 33 00 



Cost of 82i bushels shelled corn, $25 21 



Cost jjer bushel, .306 



Whether chemical farming is orthodox or not, we feel this 

 year as if we, on Waushakum Farm, had been paid by it ; and 

 we know that our two neighbors — Mr. Bowditch, with his 

 nine and a half acres, and Mr. Burnett, with his seven and a 

 half acres — also feel repaid for their trial of the formula this 

 year. 



In connection with, and to supplement, this experiment, we 

 kept an account with a smaller field, of naturally better land, 

 and fertilized from the dung-heap. The field contains 2.7 

 acres, and is situated on the east side of the highway leading 



* After the above was in type, an actual weighing showed one hundred and 

 eighteen poundj of air-dried fodder to the bushel of grain. 



