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bushel; and another crop in Shelburne is given at 

 thirty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents per acre, 

 and fifty-one cents per bushel. 



A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer reports a 

 crop in "Warren County, 111., of four thousand bushels, 

 that cost from nine to ten cents per bushel of ears. 



In a report recently made to the Whately and 

 Deerfield Farmers' Club, Mass., Edward C. Parker is 

 stated to have produced a crop of corn at a cost of 

 forty-two and a half cents per bushel. In this case 

 the net profit per acre was eighty-three dollars and 

 forty-four cents, the grain being estimated at one 

 dollar per bushel, and the stover at ten dollars per 

 ton. 



In the same report, the crop of Charles Hagar is 

 given at a cost of forty-three and a half cents per 

 bushel. The profit per acre was here fifty dollars ; 

 the price of the corn and stover being the same as 

 above. These were prize crops, the former taking 

 the first and the latter the second premium.* 



In the statements here presented the expense per 

 acre, as far as given, averages twenty-one dollars and 

 fifty-eight cents. The cost per bushel ranges from 

 seven cents to sixty cents, giving an average of thirty- 

 two cents. 



* In these two cases the cost of each crop was calculated without 

 deducting the value of the stalks. But the latter is the method of esti- 

 mating more generally practised. Had the value of the stalks been 

 here deducted from the expense, the cost per bushel would have been 

 very much less. In the former case it would have been twenty-four 

 cents per bushel, and in the latter nineteen cents. 



