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harvesting, eight dollars and sixty cents; total, forty-four 

 dollars and forty-seven cents. I have reckoned twelve cents 

 and a half per hour for a man, and also for a horse. 



[Statement of Henry M. Porter of Halifax.] 



The land on which I raised my corn has not been ploughed 

 for fifty years. It has been used as a pasture. A number 

 of coal-pits have also been burned upon it. I took off a fair 

 crop of rye last year without any manure. The rye seemed 

 to do better on the pit bottoms. The corn this year has not 

 done so well. The soil is a light sandy loam. Ploughed, 

 May 20, five inches deep ; harrowed once, and marked each 

 way three feet and a third apart. Six hundred pounds of 

 guano were sowed on before ploughing. May 21 planted by 

 hand, using nine quarts of yellow corn. Cultivated twice 

 one way, and once the other, and hoed by hand. Cut and 

 shocked Oct. 2, and husked in the latter part of the month. 

 There were 2,958 pounds of corn, three hundred and ninety- 

 seven pounds of which was pig-corn. I think there is about 

 two tons of the stover. Expenses: ploughing, harrowing, 

 and marking, two dollars ; manure and applying, seventeen 

 dollars and five cents; seed and planting, two dollars and 

 sixty-five cents; cultivation, two dollars and twenty-six 

 cents; harvesting, six dollars and ninety-five cents; total, 

 thirty dollars and ninety-one cents. 



