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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



751 



Fodder, shucks and tops from same - 



16 



S144 00 

 Deduct cost of culture [four acres] 40 00 



Leaves net profit - ^104 00 



If the price tie reduced to 70 cents, the product, 

 including Ibdder, siuicks and tops, will be )g88. 

 Calculation 4th. 

 Expense of potato culture. 



One acre that will produce 900 lbs. tobacco, 

 will yield 100 bushels potatoes. 

 To one day's fillowing - - $00 25 



To two days' preparing ground and 



planting - - - . 50 



To six bushels potato seed (cut) at 75 



cents - - - - 4 50 



To two weedings, two days' labor - 50 



To two pioughings, two days' labor - 50 



To two day's labor in digging - 50 



To carrying 100 bushels potatoes to 



market, at 12| cents per bushel - 12 50 



To boarding laborer nine days - 1 13 



$20 38 

 Credit. 

 By sale 100 bushels potatoes, at 75 



cents - - - - 75 00 



Deduct expense of culture - 20 38 



g54 62 

 Two acres in potatoes can be cultivated with the 

 same expense, and labor that would be required to 

 cultivate one in tobacco. 



Calculation. 

 To two acres in potatoes, at ^20 38 



expense per acre, - - - 40 76 



By yield of two acres, 200 bushels, at 

 '75 cents, is - - - - 150 00 



Deduct expense of culture - 40 76 



8109 24 

 If the price of potatoes be reduced to 63, the 



product will be ^85 24. 



Calculation 5ih. 

 Swine husbandry. 

 Expense of swine husbandry, connected with 



root and grain culture. 



One hundred bushels of potatoes, will, with 40 



bushels corn meal, fatten 12 hogs, allowing eight 



and a third bushels steamed potatoes, and three 



and a third bushels corn meal to each hog, which 



is more than the northern allowance. 



To expense in cultivating one acre of 

 potatoes, carriage to market de- 

 ducted - . . - 



To expense in cultivating one acre in 

 corn, carriage to market dcducled - 



To 12 hogs, eighteen months old, if 

 raised on the farm, may be charwed 

 $3 50 - - - . 



7 88 

 5 00 



42 00 



Credit. 

 By sale 12 hogs, weighing 200 lbs. 



each, 2400 lbs. at $7'50, is 

 By sale 120 lbs. lard, at 10 cents, is 



Deduct expense 



$54 88 



180 00 

 12 00 



$192 00 

 54 86 



If the price of pork be reduced to $6 per cwt., 

 the product will be, including lard, $101 12 cents. 



Calculation 6th. 

 Beef husbandry. 



Expense of beef husbandry, connected with 

 grain and grass culture. 



One acre of ground that will produce 900 lbs. 

 of tobacco, will yield between three and four thou- 

 sand pounds herd's grass hay; which will, with 40 

 bushels of corn meal, bring five beeves taken 

 from the grass to market ; allowing eight bushels 

 corn meal and 800 pounds herd's grass hay to each 

 beef. 



To one day's fallowing 

 To one day's sowinfj and harrowing 

 To one bushel herd's grass seed 

 To two days' mowing 

 To six days' securing and shocking, 



at 25 cents - - 

 To board laborer 10 days 



To expense in cultivating one acre in 

 grass - - _ _ 



To do. do. do. one acre in corn 

 To five beeves, if raised on the fiarm, 

 may be charged $20 each 



Credit. 

 By sale five beeves wei^hinnr 500 lbs. 



each, is 2,500 lbs. at $7 50 per cwt. 

 By sale 150 lbs. tallow, at 13 cents 

 By sale of five skins, at .'^3 

 By sale five tongues, at 50 cents 

 By eale five heads, five viscera and 20 



feet - - _ . 



Deduct expense 



$109 50 



187 60 



19 50 



15 00 



2 50 



12 50 



237 00 

 109 50 



$127 50 

 If the price of beef be reduced to $6 per cwt.^ 

 the product, including offal, will be $90. 

 Silk, culture. 

 As\ have ventured the opinion that the silk- 

 cullurein Virginia, will be substituted lor the cul- 

 ture of lobacco, I beg leave to give the following 

 statements from the most intelligent and distin'- 

 guished silk-raisers in Europe. Aver^rre gross 

 product of an acre of ground, according to Count 

 Dandolo, is as follows : 



To 198 pounds silk at ^4 per pound - 792 00 

 Cost of culture - - 85 10 



Net profit - - - 706 90 



Average gross product from an acre of ground, 

 according to Mr. John D. Homergue, is as fol- 

 lows : 



' 972 00 



111 94 



To 243 lbs. silk at $4 per pound is 

 Cost of culture 



Net profit - - - 860 06 



The following calculation, is predicated upon 

 the statement of Gideon B. Smith, Esq., of Bal- 

 timore, that a full grown tree, (moras multicaulis) 

 will yield foliage enough for 5,000 worms, and as 

 108 trees at 20 feet square apart will stand on an 

 acre, so will that number of trees support 540 - 

 000 worms, and as 3,000 worms will make a 

 $137 12 pound of silk, so will 540 thousand make 180 



