34 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



INDIAN CORN. 



ESSEX. 

 [Statement of Francis H. Appleton.] 



I had two fields of corn ; one consisting of one acre and 

 4,440 feet, where corn was grown in 1878 with fertilizer 

 alone, and which was then fully reported, and published by 

 the society. Last season the field also included a strip on 

 the east side, which was this year used for garden-vegeta- 

 bles: consequently what was then about an acre and a 

 quarter is now reduced in size as above stated. 



Last autumn the piece was harrowed across the rows to 

 level them before it was then ploughed; this spring, four 

 bags and a half of Stockbridge Corn Fertilizer were sown 

 broadcast, and worked in with a Randall Harrow ; immedi- 

 ately after this (on May 1) the seed and two bags and a 

 half of the same fertilizer were sown at the same time by 

 the Ross Horse Corn-Planter. The seed was of the eight- 

 rowed variety. 



Total cost of raising crop, including interest and taxes, 



seed, labor in planting, tending, and harvesting . $25 96 

 Cost of seven bags fertilizer 31 50 



$57 46 



I have harvested seventy-seven bushels and a half of first- 

 quality, and ten bushels of second-quality corn on the cob ; 

 also one ton and seven hundred and sixty-five pounds of tops, 

 and two tons and 1,522 pounds of butts and husks, making 

 four tons and two hundred and eighty-seven pounds of 

 stover. This yield of corn is at the rate of about half of, 

 and the stover nearly the same as, last year's crop. 



If corn-stover well dried is worth six dollars a ton, then 

 my corn on the cob from this field cost me thirty-seven and 



