INDIAN CORN. 



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Expenses "were as follows : — 



Nincty-fivc loads of manure, at seYcnty-fivc cents, 

 Carting- and sprcadino; the same, 

 Seed corn, bought of Calvin Lcavitt, 

 Ploughing, harrowing and furrowing, 

 Dropping manure, and planting. 

 Cultivating, ..... 

 Hoeing twice, .... 



Deducting- two-thirds manure not exhausted, . 



$58 53 



I consider the fodder to pay for harvesting and interest of 

 land. 



West Bbidgewater, Mass. 



Calvin Lcavitt's Statement. 



The acre of land that produced the crop of Indian corn en- 

 tered by me for premium, has been mowed the two past years 

 without any dressing. On the 17th and 18th of May last, I 

 carted on thirty-two loads of stable manure, made the past 

 winter. I spread the samej ploughed the 19th, and planted 

 20th and 21st, about three feet (little more) one wa}', eighteen 

 inches the other; I put no manure in the hills. The corn 

 planted was the smutty white, or Leonard Hill corn. I planted 

 four kernels in each hill. Iran a cultivator between the rows 

 three times during the season, and hoed twice, the last time? 

 about the 20th of July. The 11th of October, the supervisor 

 harvested two rods, considered an average ; an estimate from 

 which made one hundred and nine and fifty-five eighty-fifths 

 bushels. Expenses : — 

 Nine loads manure, ...... $22 50 



Carting, spreading manure and ploughing land, . 8 00 



Plougldng and planting, ..... G 50 



Cultivating and hoeing, for the season, . . . 7 00 



Ten bushels of ashes, put on the hills at hoeing, . 1 50 



$45 50 



