INDIAN CORN. 77 



Expenses : — 

 19 loads of manure, at $1, 



5 bushels of ashes, at 22 cts., 

 Ploughhig and harrowing. 

 Hauling manure and planting seed, 

 Hoeing, cutting and stacking, 

 Carting and husking. 

 Interest on land. 



$43 60 



Net profit, $(37 90 



SuxDBRLA.:^D, Nov. 15, 1855. 



NORFOLK. 



From the B,eport of the Committee. 



The season has been peculiarly unfavorable to corn. That 

 which was planted early and well attended to yielded al30ut an 

 average crop ; but nearly all was attacked by the early frosts so 

 severely as to diminish the amount of sound corn to a large 

 extent. The smallest estimate we have heard is that of Mr. L. 

 Clapp, of Stoughton, who reckons his loss at ten per cent. 

 Others consider that the frost injured their corn to the extent 

 of a quarter or even a third of an average yield. This expe- 

 rience wnll probably suggest the importance of early planting. 

 We know that the time of planting depends on so many cir- 

 cumstances, such as weather, the condition of the land and 

 the general forwardness or backwardness of the season, that no 

 rule can be laid down applicable in all cases. We have usually 

 noticed that those who plant as early as the season will permit, 

 are most sure of a crop. There is less danger from the late 

 frosts of spring than from the early frosts of autumn. Though 

 the early-planted corn may seem to grow slowly at first, yet it 

 is then striking its roots into the manure and preparing for a 

 vigorous start whenever the hot weather shall come. 



The early frost also renews the question of what kinds of corn 

 should be planted. There is no uniformity of practice among 

 the farmers in this respect. There ought not to be. The smut- 

 ty white, the brown, the large eight-rowed yellows, and the 



