INDIAN CORN. 



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an acre. Soil, a light, gravelly loam. It was planted last year 

 with potatoes in the sward, with a shovelful of manure in the 

 hill, the hills being four feet apart each way. The crop was 

 two hundred bushels. It was ploughed this year the second 

 week in May, seven inches deep, and eight cords of stable ma- 

 nure were spread, harrowed and ploughed in. I furrowed one 

 way, in rows four feet apart, and planted on the 17th and 18th 

 of May, in hills two feet apart in the row. I put a table-spoon- 

 ful of guano in each hill, and covered it with about an inch 

 and a half of loam, before dropping the seed ; then planted four 

 kernels in each hill, and hoed three times — the last time with- 

 out ploughing. The stalks were cut on the 10th of September, 

 and the corn was harvested the 15th and 16tli of October. I 

 finished husking the 24th of October, and had one hundred and 

 thirty-five baskets, weighing, when shelled, thirty-five pounds to 

 the basket, and making eighty-four and three-eighths bushels, 

 at fifty-six pounds to the bushel. 



To ascertain the weight of the cobs, I shelled, November 8th, 

 two bushels of ears. The first weighed in the ear thirty-eight 

 pounds and ten ounces ; the corn weighing twenty-nine and a half 

 pounds, and measuring nearly seventeen quarts ; the cobs, nine 

 pounds and two ounces. The second bushel weighed in the ear 

 thirty-nine pounds : corn, twenty-nine and three-fourths pounds ; 

 cobs, nine and one-fourth pounds : corn measuring seventeen 

 quarts. 



Expense : — 

 Interest on land, 



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8 cords of manure spread. 



Guano, 275 lbs.. 



Ploughing and planting. 



Seed, .... 



Hoeing, 



Cutting and binding stalks. 



Harvesting, 



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