INDIAN CORN. 83 



Statement of Mr. Twomhly. 



The field of corn which was entered by me for a premium 

 was measured by Mr. Charles Breck, and contains one acre and 

 a quarter and eleven rods, and is the same field which was 

 planted last year with corn, (with a few rods added,) an 

 account of which was reported through you to the society. 

 This spring it was ploughed with a horse, after spreading about 

 three and a half cords of manure to the acre. It was then 

 marked out with a plough one way, and manure put in the 

 drills at the rate of about three and a half cords per acre, 

 making in the whole about seven cords per acre. The field 

 was planted, about the middle of May, in drills, the kernels 

 about six inches apart in the drills, with the Plymouth county 

 or smutty white corn, the rows from three and a half to four 

 feet apart. It was ploughed and hoed twice. The last of 

 September and the first of October, the whole was cut up at 

 the bottom, carried to the barn and husked, and we had two 

 hundred and forty baskets of good corn and eight of pig corn, 

 which I think is equal to four of good, which would make two 

 hundred and forty-four baskets. I have shelled and weighed 

 several baskets, and found them to average 29.75 pounds each, 

 equal to 129.62 bushels of 56 pounds each, on one acre and a 

 quarter and eleven rods of land, being at the rate of 98.29 

 bushels per acre. The land on which the corn was raised is a 

 strong loamy soil, sloping to the west. I think that it was not 

 injured by the frost ; but a part of it was, very probably, by 

 the dry weather, and the whole of it was very much, as you 

 saw, by the high wind, which nearly levelled the whole field. 

 Had I selected the best acre, I have no doubt that it would 

 have produced over one hundred bushels. 



The value of the crop I estimate as follows : — 



129.62 bushels of corn, at $1 per bushel, . $129 62 



41- tons of corn-fodder and stalks, at $9, 40 50 



$170 12 



Expense of cultivation I have estimated as follows : — 



Interest on the land at $200 per annum, . $16 00 

 Taxes supposed to be about . . . 1 30 



