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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Expenses. 



Littlefield. 



Copeland. 



Porter. 



Ploughing .... 

 Harrowing .... 

 Furrowing or marking 

 Manure applied (§ of Copeland's 

 Planting .... 



Seed 



Cultivating .... 

 Hoeing, and pulling weeds . 

 Cutting up and shocking 

 Getting into the barn . 

 Harvesting or husking 

 Taxes, and interest on land 



Total cost of crop 

 Deduct value of fodder 



Total cost of corn 



Cost per bushel (64£, 60, 37) 



$1 50 

 50 

 28 



15 00 

 1 25 

 27 

 56 

 50 

 88 

 00 

 88 

 00 



$33 62 

 19 25 



$14 37 



22f 



$2 44 

 33 

 45 



17 50 



1 88 

 27 

 90 



2 50 

 2 50 

 2 00 

 6 10 

 1 75 



$38 62 

 17 50 



521 12 



35i 



$1 63 



37 



50 



17 05 



1 77 



25 



1 01 



1 25 



00 

 50 

 60 

 25 



2 18 

 14 00 



$18 18 

 49 



Mr. Littlefield is entitled to the first, Mr. Copeland the 

 second, and Mr. Porter the third premium. 



[Statement of Rufus A. Littlefield of East Bridgewater.] 



The acre of land entered by me for the premium on corn 

 produced at the least cost per bushel is a warm, fine, sandy 

 loam, the most of which has been in grass for the last fifteen 

 years, producing about five-eighths of a ton per acre. A few 

 bushels of ashes, perhaps twenty-five, were spread on the 

 poorest part in 1871. In 1874 about thirty rods were 

 planted to fodder-corn with a light dressing in the hill; and 

 in the spring of 1875 a light coat of manure was harrowed 

 in, and Hungarian sowed ; and in the fall it was set with 

 blackberry-canes, and thus remained without manure till last 

 spring. May 24 it was ploughed nine inches deep, a part 

 harrowed with a wheel harrow, and the piece furrowed out 

 forty-one inches apart. Two cords of manure from under 

 my horse-stalls were applied in the furrow. It was planted 

 the same day in hills thirty inches apart, putting four corns 

 in each, using ten quarts of corn of a yellow variety which 

 I have been improving for several years, and now consider 

 the most productive kind of yellow corn with which I am 



