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his crop was twenty-three cents per bushel for the 

 grain, being at the rate of twelve dollars and thirty- 

 six cents per acre. 



Mr. Dickerman, of Conn., reports to the Agricul- 

 turist a crop of one thousand bushels, raised at an 

 expense of about six hundred dollars, which is sixty 

 cents per bushel, the expense per acre being about 

 twenty-six dollars. 



H. S. Senter, of Mercer County, 111., writes to the 

 same journal that his crop of one thousand four hun- 

 dred and forty bushels was raised at an expense of 

 ninety-one dollars, which is less than seven cents per 

 bushel. 



Mr. Walker, of Concord, N. H., gives the expense 

 of a crop raised by himself at forty-nine and three- 

 fifths cents per bushel, or twenty-four dollars and 

 eighty cents per acre. 



Jonathan Roberts, of Montgomery County, Penn., 

 has calculated the expense of his maize crop at nine- 

 teen dollars per acre, and thirty -one and two-thirds 

 cents per bushel. 



In Mr. Colman's Report to the Legislature of Mas- 

 sachusetts he gives two crops from the same town, 

 showing a very wide difference in the expense of rais- 

 ing them ; the one costing nineteen cents per bushel, 

 and the other fifty-seven cents. In this case one 

 farmer paid three times as much per bushel for his 

 corn as the other. 



A crop raised in Deerfield is quoted in the same 

 report as costing twenty-two dollars and sixty-seven 

 cents per acre, and forty-five and one-third cents per 



