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DEBT AND CREDIT ON THE ABOVE FIELD. 



Land valued by the Assessors at $225 per acre, interest 



on ditto, $27.00 



Taxes on the same this year, ..... 2.56 

 Ploughing in September, 1852, . . . " . . 5.00 

 Carting sods into barn cellar for hogs at sundry times, . 10.00 

 Manure of horse and cow, 5 1-2 months, .... 8.00 

 Use of hogs to work over sods and composting, . . 10.00 

 Applying manure, §10 ; ploughing, harrowing, and furrow- 

 ing, $6, 16 00 



Seed corn and planting, $3.50 ; cultivating and hoeing, §6, 9.50 



Cutting stalks and harvesting, ..... 16.00 



VALUE OF CROP. 



Stalks and husks, . . . . . 



258 4-7 bushels shelled corn, at 90 cents, 

 Increased value of land, benefited by manure, 



Deduct cost as above, 



$104.06 



$30.00 



232.20 



14.00 



$276.20 

 104.06 



$172.14 

 Yours, very respectfully, 



Luther Gilbert. 

 Grcmtville, Keedhajn, Nov. 11, 1853. 



STATEMENT OF J. R. DOW, OF MILTON, ON CORN. 

 To J. P. Jones, Esq., Chairman Committee on Grain Crops: 



Dear Sir — The one and five-eighths acres of land which I oifer 

 for premium, were broken up and planted to corn in 1852, and then 

 manured with five cords of piggery manure to the acre. In 1853, 

 the same land was treated in precisely the same way. I finished 

 planting 8th of June, as follows : — 



25 rows were planted 18 inches apart both ways. 



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