INDIAN CORN. 



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the acre, using a compost, one-lialf from the barnyard, the other 

 half from the slaughter-house. I hoed three times, and ashed 

 one-half of the field after the first hoeing. The corn was cut 

 and stacked, about the middle of September, and hushed, the 

 last of October. The yield was one hundred and twenty-five 

 bushels of cars, equal to sixty-two and one-half bushels of 

 shelled corn. The whole field yielded three hundred and 

 seventy-one bushels of ears. I think there was a loss of from 

 five to eight bushels per acre, in consequence of an east wind, 

 about the last of July, which prostrated it flat upon the ground. 



Value of crop : — 



62i bushels, at 83 cents, ... 

 1^ tons of corn fodder at $5, . 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing, . 



Manure, and spreading it, 

 Planting, 

 Hoeing, 

 Seed, . 



Cutting and stacking, 

 Husking, 



Drawing to the barn, 

 Interest on land, 

 Ashes and ashing, 



Net gain, 



AMnERST, November 17, 1853. 



$59 37 



$29 75 

 $29 62 



HAMPDEN. 



Report of the Committee. 



The committee remark that the cultivation of corn is a sub- 

 ject in which every farmer is most deeply interested ; it is like 

 iron among the metals, the most common and still the most im- 

 portant ; it will be seen by the official report of the Patent 

 Office, 1851-2, that the aggregate of this crop is more than 

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