FARMS. 7 



One and tlircc-cigliths acres of the poorest land was ploughed, 

 after putting on thirty loads of green barn manure, fifteen 

 bushels to the load, on the 22d of May. The cost was as follows : 



30 loads manure, at 75 cts. per load, . . . $22 50 

 Cost of ploughing and planting and seed corn, 



of hoeing and cultivating, (very clear of weeds,) 



of harvesting and shelling corn, 



Total, $45 60 



Cr. 

 By 50 bushels shelled corn, at $1.25, ... $62 50 

 2 tons stover, $10 ; 1 load pumpkins, $3, . . 23 00 



Total, $85 50 



• One-half acre adjoining the latter place was planted to Italian 

 turnips on the 14th of July. The land was ploughed with corn 

 land, and at each cultivation of corn the turnip land was run 

 over with cultivator or harrow three times. The piece, before 

 planting, was marked across in strips of eight paces wide ; on 

 one Pacific guano was spread at the rate of about 200 pounds 

 per acre, and on the rest the flour of bone was applied at the 

 rate of 300 pounds to the acre, and so on through the whole, 

 except one strip, on which nothing was put. On the day before 

 the seed was put in, it was all harrowed with a grain harrow. 

 In the growth of crop no perceptible advantage was gained by 

 the bone flour, but the guano was a marked advantage in weight 

 of crop, and I think would have been much more so if the 

 season had not been so very dry. The account stands thus : — 



Ploughing, $2.50 ; planting, $1.20, 



Guano, $2.40 ; flour of bone, $3, .... 



Labor hired for hoeing, $4.50 ; harvesting, $12, 



Total, $25 60 



Cr. 



By 88 bushels turnips, at 60c, .... $52 80 

 12 bushels small, 40c. ; tops for young stock, $2, 6 80 



Total, $59 60 



