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Credit by 54 tons 1,726 lbs. stover (estimated at 100 

 pounds stover to 1 bushel shelled corn), at $8 per ton, 



Cost of 1,097^ bushels corn, . 

 Cost of 1 bushel shelled corn. 



22y\ cents. 



t38 90 



$264 45 



Statement of P. McMalion. 



Indian Corn. — The two fields of corn which I enter for 

 premiums, contain about four and a quarter acres. One three- 

 acre field I have withdrawn, as the worms cut off a great 

 deal of it in June. I mention this in order that you, and all 

 who may read this, will not think that I went in for a small 

 field and doubled the manure on it in order to get a premium. 

 I have planted six acres a year for the last seven years, and 

 have manuied from the barn cellar and hog-pens. My rule 

 is, eight cords to the acre of number one manure. From the 

 barn-yard I top-dress four acres of grass-land, which I think 

 is thoroughly manuring : ten acres a year from twenty-five 

 head of cattle and from four to eight swine, as it may happen ; 

 that gives me five years to get over the ploughed land, which 

 contains fifty acres. 



Number two field, which I have entered for premium, con- 

 tains about one and a quarter acres. In 1873, one part of it 

 was pasture land, and the other part run-out mowing land. 

 The soil is a deep blackish, with a yellow clay subsoil, 

 manured in 1874 with eight cords to the acre, planted part 

 with corn and part with potatoes. In 1875 it was manured 

 with eight cords to the acre, ploughed in and planted May 

 18, cultivated three times both ways, hoed three times, and 

 weeded and sprouted. 



Expense of ploughing and harrowing, . 



Value of three cords manure in cellar, at $8 per cord, 



Carting and spreading, .... 



Seed, furrowing and planting, 

 Cultivating and hoeing three times. 

 Sprouting, ...... 



Cutting and stooking stalks, 



Hai'vesting and husking 278 bushels (which is the num 



ber of bushels I had on one acre), 

 Interest and taxes, .... 



Total expense, .... 



$4 00 



24 00 



10 00 



2 00 



9 00 



1 50 



2 00 



22 00 

 2 50 



$67 00 



