302 INDIAN CORN. 



the elements of fertility extracted by the crop. The 

 most profitable market for corn, and in nearly all 

 cases the only profitable one, is to be found in the 

 cattle-stall, the pig-stye, the cow-yard, and the poul- 

 try-house ; not omitting, of course, the family table, 

 which, though more limited, is, as far as its require- 

 ments extend, the best of all markets. 



As every farmer, however, is liable occasionally to 

 find his interest in resorting to a cash market, not 

 merely for the sale of his corn, but sometimes and 

 perhaps more profitably as a purchaser, it is a matter 

 of some interest to keep himself tolerably posted in 

 regard to the current quotations, and more especially 

 is this true in reference to some of the other products 

 of the farm. In the range of prices for all such pro- 

 visions as corn is used in producing, he necessarily 

 feels a lively interest, for in these he discerns the real 

 profit on his corn crop. 



The average price of corn in the New York mar- 

 ket for the last three years is about one dollar and 

 twenty cents per bushel. This price having resulted 

 from the rebellion, is of course exceptional, and can- 

 not be permanent. For the first two months of the 

 present year (1866) yellow corn has ranged from 

 eighty to ninety-five cents. For a long series of years 

 previous to the war the average was not over sixty- 

 five cents, and for the last forty years, including the 

 period of the rebellion, the average price is about 

 sixty-seven cents per bushel. 



The average price of corn for 1865, as compared 

 with several other products, is as follows : 



