GRAIN CROPS. 



287 



The yield reported by the committee was 42|f bushels of corn 

 by weight to the half acre, or 85 f <? to the acre. 



The same measured 4"' T 8 o 7 o bushels to the half acre, and 

 93 j 7 q 5 ^ bushels to the acre. 



David Whiton. 



Statements of Hon. Albert Fearing. 

 I enter for premium one-half acre of white corn. The soil is 

 a gravelly loam. The land was in grass in 1870, without 

 manure. Ploughed eleven inches deep. Applied four cords of 

 barn manure, and planted with Whitman corn, five kernels in 

 the hill, three feet apart each way. 



COST OF CULTIVATION. 



Total, . 



$60 25 



PRODUCE. 



Three-quarters ton top stalks, 

 One-quarter ton butt stalks, . 



j. otai, . . . . . 



Ill 25 

 10 00 



$21 25 



The yield reported by the committee was 52-f § bushels of corn 

 to the half acre, or 105|| to the acre. 



The same measured 531 bushels to the half acre, and 106| 

 bushels to the acre. 



Rye. — One acre of rye. The soil is a gravelly loam, and was 

 planted with corn in 1870. 



Six cords of manure were applied. Rye was sowed in October, 

 and four hundred pounds of guano harrowed in. 



