125 



Taxes, about $1.00 



Value of seed, ........ .75 



$T1.25 



VALUE OF THE CROP. 



07 bushels and 19 quarts of corn, at $1 per bushel, . $97.59 



Suckers and top stalks, 2 tons, 20.00 



Butts and husks, 2 tons, 10.00 



$127.59 

 Deduct expense, 71.25 



Net profit on 133 rods, $56.34 



Philemon Ruggles. 

 3Iilton, Nov. 10, 1853. 



Milton, October 27, 1853. 

 This certifies that I measured the land on which the corn of Mr. 

 P. Ruggles grew, and found that it contained 133 rods. 



Charles Breck, Surveyor. 



REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON MR. RUGGLES'S 

 CROP OF CORN. 



The Committee appointed at a meeting of the Trustees of the 

 Norfolk Agricultural Society, on the 17th of November last, report. 

 That, in pursuance of that appointment, thej have visited the farm 

 cultivated bj Mr. Philemon Ruggles, in Milton, for the purpose of 

 ascertaining the accuracy of the statement made by him respect- 

 ing his crop of corn. 



The field measures 133 rods, from which 147 baskets of corn, on 

 the ear, were gathered, measuring, when shelled, 20 1-10 quarts per 

 basket, and weighing 37 lbs., making 5,439 lbs., which divided by 

 50 lbs., the Society's standard for the bushel, gives 97 bushels, equal 

 to 117 bushels to the acre. 

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