70 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Ill November I added two more loads of horse manure to each 

 heap, and had the whole worked over and composted. In the 

 spring another small quantity of manure was added, and another 

 turning and mixing of the compost heap prepared it for use. 

 This was evenly spread over the surface, say thirty-five loads of 

 compost to the acre, and upon this was sown one hundred pounds 

 of guano, and the whole ploughed under to the depth of seven 

 inches. 



Cost of ploughing and harrowing, . . $4 00 



Planting, with machine, $1 ; rolling, 67 cts., 1 67 



Seed corn, 75 cts. ; hoeing, three times, f 8, . 8 75 



70 loads of compost, at 60 cts. per load, . 42 00 



200 lbs. guano, 6 00 



Interest on land, at $100 per acre, . . 12 00 



-|74 42 

 I harvested from the same 327 bushels ears, equal 



to 1634- bu. shelled corn, valued at $1 per bu. 163 50 



Profit, |89 08 



Corn fodder with the poor corn not reckoned in the above, 

 together with a small lot of pumpkins, will amply pay the ex- 

 pense of harvesting. 



Statement of Austin L. Clark. 



This crop was grown upon one acre of sandy loam, on which 

 1 applied, last year, ten loads of manure. The first week in 

 May I ploughed and turned in ten loads of yard manure, about 

 eight inches deep. I then spread on nine loads of co.rpost and 

 harrowed in. On the 16th of May, I planted in rows three feet 

 apart — hills three feet four inches apart — and put five bushels 

 of ashes in the hills, which were not raised. I hoed three times. 

 On the 24th of September the crop was harvested. 



Value of crop : — 



91| bushels of corn, at $1, . . . $91 25 



3 tons of fodder, at $6, . . . . 18 00 



9 bushels of soft corn, at 25 cts., . . 2 25 



$111 50 



