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seventy cents ; ninety bushels, sixty-three dollars. If I had 

 such a corn-crop as that, I should say, 7,650 pounds of ears, 

 worth in crib, $1.35 per hundred pounds : cash value of corn, 

 f 103.27. This may seem too high to many, if they have not 

 carefully watched the practical working of cob-meal. But I 

 think a large majority of the farmers in Essex County who 

 have grown corn this season will admit that four quarts of 

 cob-meal are worth as much as three quarts of the clear corn- 

 meal. On that basis we have 7,650 pounds of ears, worth in 

 the crib 11.15 per hundred pounds : cash value of the corn, 

 $87.97. 



It is well for the farmers of Essex County to know the full 

 value of their meadow hay, butt-stalks, and corn-cobs. It is 

 also well for them to know the exact conditions under which 

 they can realize full value for all their crops ; for economy in 

 using is as important as economy in producing. 



