GRAIN CROPS. 213 



Cutting stalks and harvesting, .... $17 00 

 Fourteen cords manure, at $5 per cord, two-fifths this 



year, 28 00 



175 87 



The yield of corn was 6,1 34| pounds, making 85-| bushels of 

 72 pounds each. The 72 pounds of ears gave 61i pounds of 

 shelled corn ; and this, reduced to legal weight (56 pounds per 

 bushel), makes a yield of 93 bushels of shelled corn to the acre. 



VALUE OF CROP. 



Ninety-three bushels of corn at $1.25, 

 Three hundred and four bundles stalks, . 



Jlj. I i S K. S • • • • • • • • 



Deduct expense, ..... 



Net income, .... . $80 73 



Deducting from the expenses of the corn crop, the value of 

 the top stalks and husks, we have the cost of the corn. 



Whole expense, 



Value of top stalks, .... 

 Value of husks, ..... 



Making 85^ bushels corn cost, 

 Cost of one bushel, nearly 



Framingham, Oct. 31, 1871. 



Statement of Jo siah Gibbs. 

 Indian Corn. — The field of corn I enter for premium contains 

 four acres ; the soil is deep loam, the field was grass land, and 

 was ploughed in 1869, and planted with corn in 1870, and had 

 a good crop. In April, 1871, the land was manured with 

 twenty-one cords green manure, spread on the land and ploughed 



