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Kentucky. — Shelby: Coru-fed hogs sold at 4 ceuts per pound, gross, equal to 40 

 cents per bushel for corn ; after this a demand sprung up from distilleries, and the 

 price advanced from 30 cents to 50 cents, and even to 60 cents per bushel, and at this 

 last price our large surplus was disposed of. 



Ohio. — rickcucaii : The yield of corn upon well-managed farms amounted to from40 to 

 75 bushels per acre. Some fields yielded 100 bushels per acre. The price realized from 

 this crop will average 45 ceuts per bushel, and the product of an acre iji20.25 

 exclusive of the fodder, which is worth from $1 75 to $2 per acre. The cost of produc- 

 ing this crop and disposing of it will amount to an average of .$8.50 per acre, leaving 

 a profit of $il3.50. Corn fed to hogs will average about the same. Logan: Corn has 

 yielded The largv^st maigin over expenses. Cost of raising 35 bushels of com on one 

 acre of land, $9.50; value of corn, at 50 c^nts per bushel, $17.50; value of fodder, $1.50; 

 total, $19; deduct expenses of raising, and a clear gain remains of $9.50. 



Indiana.— Vanderburgh : From 60 to 100 bushels of corn a-e rained on the river-bot- 

 toms. The yield in the interior is comparatively small, and 30 bushels to the acre is 

 as much as the upland-* will average. Madison : \Yith uh corn averages 38 bushels per 

 acre, selling at an average price of 40 cents per bushel, making a value per acre of 

 $15 20. AYlieat will yir Id 10 bushels per acre, at a selling-piice of $1.10 per bushel. 

 The surplus corn is ltd to hogs and cattle. Average pric« of hogs, (gros;*,) $3.d0 per 

 hundred ; price of fat cattle, 3 cents per pound, gross. BipUy : I have sold ct>rn at the 

 crib this winter for 60 ce'nts per bushel, and wheat at $1..50'per bushel, my corn aver- 

 aging 50 bushels per acre, and wheat 15 bushels per acre. The average for corn (for the 

 whole c lunty) would be 30 bushels and for wheat 10 bu^ht'ls per aore. N) other 

 branch of ."Jgriculrure here pays so well, except a few isolated casus of hop-ra'sing and 

 haying. Hamilton : One great advantage in raising corn is that a man may avoid all 

 high wages and expensive machinery ; he may gather the crop at his leisure. At ttie 

 present h'gh price of cm there would be no proh'^^ in feeding it to hogs. Martin: 

 Corn may be considered the main crop, and the average va ue per acre is greater thaa 

 anything else cultivated here. The corn is principally 'ed to hogs, and they are mo.stiy 

 sold to agents who purchase for Cin'inati nacker.-t. Franklin : The best feeders here 

 get from 10 to 16 pounds of pork to the bu.shel of corn; this at 5 cents per pound, will 

 yield the producer from 50 to HO cents per bushel for corn. The best corn-lands yield 

 an average of 50 bushels per acre, giving a cash value per acre from $20 to $40, for the 

 produce of the land, less the cost of production, interest and tax, l)ut still yielding a 

 balance in favor of the farmer greater than from any other crop. Gibson : Even at the 

 low price of pork for the last two years, I have found more clear money in feeding 

 corn to hogs and selling them for others to fatten. For example: I sold 75 stock-hogs 

 for $469.43, while the corn they ate at 45 cents per bushel, and the pasturage at $1 per 

 month, amounted to $307.20, liiaking a difference of $l6.i.23 in favor of the hogs. 

 Corn and pork necessarily go together, and have proved the most profitable. Miami : 

 There is but very little difference in the relative expense of raising our two principal 

 crops — wheat and corn; of the latter we had about 30 bushels to the acre, and it has 

 been selling for 50 cents per bushel ; of the former we had about 15 bushels to the acre, 

 selling at $1.35 per bushel, and I believe this statement approximates the facts of 

 the case for the past three years, although I am -well aware the prevailing opiuiou of 

 our Wabash Valley faruiersis in favor of the corn-crop. 



Dakota. — Minnehaha : The t tal expenses of raising 480 bushels of corn on a t^n-acre 

 field amounted to $104.37; the crop sold at 60 cents per bu-ihel, or .$288 for the crop, 

 h-aving a net profit of $183.63. On a ten-acre field 250 >iu-hels of wu^an were r-iised. 

 The crop sold for $187.50, and the expenses loot d np $105..50, leavmg a balance of $82 

 for a profit. The crop of com could be market d at h 'ine, but the wheat must be 

 taken hence for a market, and which would make the difference in favor of the corn 

 8 ill greater. 



Illinols. — White : Raising corn Jias paid better this season than any other crop, and 

 is now in demand at 50 cents per bushel, shelled and sacked. Our wheat-crop was 

 very light, and not of good quality ; the average price per bushel was about $1.30, and 

 the same wheat brought $1.50 a month ago. 



Minnesota. — Redwood : All other products excepting corn have fallen off .50 percent, 

 in consequence of the grasshopper. Corn is now worth 60 cents per bushel, whereas 

 wheat fetches only 75 ceuts ; corn can be consumed at home, and wheat has to be 

 shipped to a market. 



Iowa. — Wayne: Corn with us is worth 40 cents per bushel, or $16 per acre ; the total 

 expenses for raising the same amounts to $5..50, leaving $7.50 net profit. Hardin : We 

 raise from 35 to 50 bushels of coru to the acre, and are selling it at from 40 to 45 cents 

 lier bushel, realizing about $15 per acre. Polk : The average yield of corn is 45 bushels 

 to the acre; this at preseut is worth 40 to 42 cents per bushel, or. say, 41 cents, and 

 we have $18.45 per acre. Wheat with us averages y bushels i)er acre, $1 per bushel, 

 equal to $9 per acre. Oats yield $16.50 per a -re. Macoupin : Corn fed to hogs realized 

 50 cents per bushel, most of our hogs selling at $5 per hundred. VVht^at-crop of 1873 

 was light, and paid but little over expenses. Cass : Raising corn and feeding cattle 



