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entire dryness. To guard against damage from this 

 source, the cribs should be well ventilated. The 

 walls should have numerous openings for the free 

 admission of air. The floor should be elevated at 

 least twelve or eighteen inches above the ground, to 

 permit the air to circulate freely at the bottom 

 of the bulk. 



In this connection it may not be inappropriate to 

 give an instance of high farming for corn, reported to 

 the North Carolina State Agricultural Society, 1858, 

 by Commissioners appointed by the Society to 

 examine the crops and award premiums. They 

 awarded a premium of one hundred dollars. 



Statement of Mr. T. S. Harris' crop of corn, one 

 acre, planted and worked as follows : 



Thirty-two loads (two-horse) stable manure $ 32 00 



Spreading the same 2" 50 



Plowing and harrowing 6 00 



Planting and seed 2 00 



Hoeing and cultivation 5 00 



Harvesting and shucking 5 00 



Interest on land and taxes 2 50 



Cost of raising $ 5G 00 



Value of 102 bushels of corn at $1 ................................................... $102 00 



Value of li^ tons fodder at $10 ........................................................ 12 50 



$114 50 

 Less cost of cultivation ................................................................... 56 00 



Profit $ 58 50 



The above crop was planted on the 12th day of 

 April, upon land plowed with a three- horse plow, 

 and subsoiled with a snake-head coulter. The land 

 was an average of a thirty- acre lot of upland, which 

 would have brought, without manure, about twenty 

 bftshels to the acre ; the remainder of the thirty- acre 

 field averaged eighteen and a half bushels to the acre. 

 After preparing the ground and plan ting the corn, the- 



