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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



forty-seven' baskets of ears, yielding, by estimated measure 

 ninety-seven bushels and nineteen quarts, or about one liundred 

 and eiiihtcen bushels per acre. Tiic corn was planted about 

 the 15th of May, and was of the kind called Plymoutli County, 

 or smutty white. One-third of the field was moist ; land, and 

 yielded much, better than the other part. 



Estimated Cost of said crop :-r- 



Five cords barnyard manure, at $6 per cord, 

 Carting out and spreading, 

 Ploughing the ground twice with horse. 

 Two days' planting, . . . . 

 Ploughing and hoeing twice, four days. 

 Cutting suckers, two days, 



" stalks, " " . 

 ^ ' " up but stalks. 

 Husking corn, 4 days. 

 Interest on land, at $200 per acre. 

 Taxes, about . . . . . 

 Value of seed, . . . 



'1 25 



Value of the crop : — 



97 bushels and 19 quarts corn, at $1. per bushel, $97 59 

 Suckers and top stalks, 2 tons, .. . 20 00 



Buts and husks, 2 tons, . . . . 10 00 



127 59 



Netprofit on 133 rods, . . . *•. . ; .$56 34 



Milton, November 10, 1853. 



This certifies that I measured the land on which the corn of 

 Mr. P. Ruggles grew, and found that it contained 133 rods. 



i Charles Breck, Surveyor. 



Milton, October 27, 1853. 



Report of Special Committee on Mr. Buggies' Crop of Corn. 



The committee appointed at a meeting of the trustees of the 

 Norfolk Agricultural Society, on the 17th of N^vpm'ber last, 

 report: That, in pursuance of that appointment, they have 

 visited the farm cultivated by Mr. Philemon Haggles, in Milton, 



