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inferior quality. In 1876 I planted the same piece with 

 potatoes, using about the same quantity of dressing, of good 

 quality, from my barn-cellar. The present year I planted 

 the same piece to Indian corn, using twenty dollars' worth 

 of Stockbridge Fertilizer, — a little less than is recommended 

 per acre for corn. It was planted June 5 in rows both ways, 

 hills three feet and a half apart, putting the fertilizer in 

 the hill, with the following result : Cost of ploughing and 

 harrowing, five dollars; cost of fertilizer, twenty dollars; 

 hoeing with horse-hoe, two dollars; cost of cultivating six 

 times, nine dollars ; cost of weeding twice, by boys, two dol- 

 lars ; cost of seed and planting, four dollars ; cost of harvest- 

 ing and storing, ten dollars. Weight of corn on the ear, 

 7,650 pounds. Estimating eighty-five pounds of corn on the 

 cob to make a bushel of shelled corn leaves ninety bushels 

 per acre. 



90 bushels of com, at 70 cents per bushel . . . $63 00 

 Value of stover 20 00 



$83 00 

 Deduct expense 52 00 



$3100 

 The above statement I believe to be correct. 



[Statement of Francis H. Appleton.] 



I have this season used some of the Stockbridge Fertilizer 

 for corn, which is manufactured by W. H. Bowker & Co., 

 Boston ; and I believe that the facts which I give herewith 

 will be mteresting and useful to farmers. 



I have carefully surveyed the land, and computed as accu- 

 rately as possible the labor, &c., employed, and the results. 

 I have also, for the sake of comparison, studied in a similar 

 way a piece of land planted to corn, and manured with stable- 

 manure. 



The land was all manured the season of 1876 with stable- 

 manure (about six cords to the acre), for potatoes, on an 

 inverted grass-sod. This year's corn-crop got an earlier and 

 better start on the fertilizer piece than on the stable-manure 

 piece, both pieces being planted at the same time. 



