138 STATE BOAED OF AGRICULTUEE. 



Db. Ok. 



To preparing ground - $9S 94 



27 loads comi^ost, @ 25c - 6 75 



sowing - - 4 29 



seed 7 37 



cultivation of crop 90 10 



By 17 acres turnips, @ $30 . - $510 00 



To balance 302 55 



$510 00 $510 00 



Stone were picked from the field during the preparation for this crop, at a 

 cost of §10 12, which exj^ense is charged to permanent improvements. Adding 

 the gain on potatoes (5 acres) to the gain on roots (17 acres) gives us a total of 

 1359 58. 



Field No. 11. Fields No. 11, 13, and 15, in 1875 comprised one large field 

 used as woodland pasture, and all was known as No. 11. This year No. 11 

 proper was fenced off (23f acres) and Nos. 13 and 15 left as before, in one 

 field. Much labor in stumping and logging was done in 1875 to prepare the 

 field for a crop ; but considerable work remained to be done. 



The surface on the east part of the field was very rough and stumpy. Be- 

 gan plowing with the oxen on May 15th and finished the field on the 28th. On 

 the 2Gtli of May commenced harrowing east and west with drag lapped half. 

 Harrowed a second time northeast and southwest, and then marked the field ; 

 the rows east and west 3tV feet apart ; the rows north and south 4 feet apart. 

 Planted the field on June 2d and 3d ; the north half of the field to yellow 

 blaze, and the south half to yellow dent. The field contains about four acres 

 of swamp tliat was cleared, and partly drained in the latter part of the season. 

 The field in corn was nearly twenty acres. 



On June 29tli finished cultivating twice in a row east and west, and imme- 

 diately crossed it cultivating twice in a row. Then followed hand hoeing. July 

 14tli besran cultivating the field east and west once in a row, and then cultivated 

 north and south twice in a row. There being some grass on the west side of 

 the field where the headland was left in plowing, the thirty rows on this side of 

 the field were hoed a second time. On September 11th began cutting corn, 

 putting forty-nine hills or equivalents of space in a stook. Finished cutting 

 on the 13th. The crop was estimated. 



The crop was injured very much by the wet at first, and then by the severe 

 drouth after July G, that came Just at the time when the corn Avas setting for 

 ears. 



The account with the crop is as follows : 



Dil- Ok. 



To preparing for crop -- $84 65 



planting 18 01 



seed 3 66 



cultivation 75 74 



harvesting - 18 22 



By 40 tons stalks (estimated) @ 1.50 160 Oa 



600 bushels corn (estimated) @ 20 cts 120 00 



loss to balance - - - - 20 88 



$200 88 $200 88 



