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STATEMENT OF ISxVAC H. MESERVE, ON CORN. 



Broolc Farm, Nov. 12, 1853. 

 To (lie Committee on Grain Crops : 



Gentlemen — The acre of corn -which I offer for a premium, was 

 raised on light, loamy soil ; it Avas pasture land in 1852 ; I ploughed 

 it, the last of September of that year, eight inches deep ; last spring 

 I spread about six cords of green barn manure, night soil, and 

 meadow mud, well mixed : then ploughed from ten to tweh^e inches 

 deep, harrowed it, then ploughed four inches deep, harrowed again, 

 and planted with one shovelful of compost of hogs' manure and 

 meadow mud in each hill ; the rows three feet apart and the hills 

 two and a half; the corn was the twelve-rowed kind, with four 

 kernels in a hill, I planted the 17th of May ; cut the stalks the 

 8th of September ; and harvested the 19th of October. I cultivated 

 once and hoed three times ; after the first hoeing, I put around the 

 corn 250 lbs. of guano. 



EXPENSES. 



Ten cords manure, at $4, - - - $40.00 



Ploughing and harrowing, - - - - 8.00 



Furrowing and planting, - - - 5.00 



Hoeing, &c., 5.00 



Cutting stalks, and harvesting, - - 7.00 



Interest on land, 6.00 



Guano, 7,50 



$78.50 



VALUE OF CROP. 



Stalks, $15.00 



One hundred and five bushels corn, - 105.00 



One half the manure unexpended, - - 23.75 



$143.75 



Deducting cost of crop, - - - 78.50 



Leaves net profit of - - - $65.25 



The ground was measured by James Ritchie, Esq. ; the corn was 

 measured by Mr. James M. Wentworth ; there were one hundred 



