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acquainted. The ears are of medium length, well covered 

 at the tip, and the kernels broad and deep. 



June 20 I scarified it one way, July 1, the other way, 

 and hoed it July 2. I pulled some weeds Aug. 15. The 

 corn was cut up Sept. 25, and shocked on the 27th. There 

 were a hundred and twelve large shocks, which were hauled 

 to the barn, and husked about Oct. 9. A shock of corn 

 weighing a hundred and one pounds was husked, and gave 

 fifty pounds of ears, leaving about fifty-one pounds of fodder. 

 The entire weight of the crop was 5,583 pounds of ears, 

 fifty-one pounds of which was called pig-corn. ' Expenses : 

 ploughing, harvesting, and furrowing, two dollars and a 

 quarter ; seed and planting, one dollar and twenty cents ; 

 manure and applying, fourteen dollars ; cultivation, two 

 dollars and a half ; harvesting, seven dollars and eight cents ; 

 interest and taxes, one dollar and twenty cents ; total, 

 twenty-eight dollars and twenty-three cents. I have reck- 

 oned ten cents per hour for a man, and also for a horse. I 

 think a third of the value of the manure remains in the land. 

 The stover I consider worth seventeen dollars and a half. 



[Statement of Davis Copeland of West Bridgewater.] 



The land on which my corn grew is a moist, gravelly 

 loam. Has not been ploughed for twenty-four years : it was 

 then moderately manured, seeded to grass, and mowed for a 

 few years, since then has been pastured, and was now badly 

 worn out. May 28, it was ploughed about six inches deep, 

 harrowed with the Randall harrow, and furrowed one way 

 about three feet apart. May 30 three cords and a half of 

 stable-manure were dropped in the furrow, and the corn 

 planted in hills two feet to two feet and a half apart, using 

 ten quarts of yellow corn. It was horse-hoed and hand-hoed 

 twice, cut and shocked in September, and husked in Octo- 

 ber. There were forty-eight hundred pounds of ears, three 

 hundred pounds of which were pig-corn. I estimate the 

 stover at three tons to three tons and a half, and worth seven 

 dollars and a half per ton. Expenses : ploughing, harrowing, 

 and furrowing, three dollars and a half ; manure and drop- 

 ping, twenty-seven dollars ; seed and planting, one dollar 

 and eighty-seven cents ; cultivation, three dollars and a half ; 



