142 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



Weighed 7,339 pounds, being 104 bushels 59 pounds, of corn ; shelled 70 

 pounds of ears ; made 58^ pounds of shelled corn. The expenses are as fol- 

 lows: Plowing laud, $1.50; harrowing, 50 cents; planting with drill, 25 

 cents; harrowing the corn, 25 cents; plowing corn twice, $1 ; husking and 

 cribbing, $5 ; total, $8.50. 



BLUE KIDGE, IND., November 27, 1877. 



The following is a report of my acre of corn : Yield, 91 bushels ; variety 

 of corn planted, mammoth white; variety of soil, black loam. First crop. 

 Plowing, $2; harrowing, $1; crossing off and planting, $1; plowing three 

 times with double-shovel, $2; husking and cribbing, $4.50 ; total, $8.50. We 

 have selected fifty-three ears that weigh seventy-one pounds. 



R A. BURTON. 



WHITEWATER, WAYNE COUNTY, IND. , ) 

 November, 27, 1877. j 



I send the result of my acre to the club. I selected my acre out of a 

 five-acre piece of rich sand loam, black burr-oak bottom ; broke on the 5th 

 of May ; harrowed and rolled ; then took one of Ag's top-drags over it ; 

 marked off, with three-runner sled, three and one-half feet each way; planted 

 eighth day of May with hand-planter, three and four grains to the hill, of 

 the Excelsior Kansas corn; rolled soon as corn was up; plowed once each 

 way with small shovel, then each way with large shovel, using the Western 

 two-horse cultivator ; plowed close two first times ; whole five acres plowed 

 alike, only the one acre I followed Avith the hoe first and fourth time, then 

 finished clearing it second week in July. Laid by plowing 28th June ; plowed 

 four times, hoed twice, and cleaned up. I husked the first week in Novem- 

 ber four loads of corn, weighing 26 bushels 10 pounds per load, 70 pounds 

 per bushel, making 104 bushels. I shelled one barrel of 2 bushels 10 pounds, 

 making 2 bushels 1^ gallons strong measure; then weighed the shelled, 2 

 bushels 19 pounds of 56 pounds standard. This will bring me up to about 

 107 bushels, which is 10 short of what I expected. Expenses as follows: 

 Half day plowing, $1.25; harrowing, rolling, and dragging, $1.25; marking, 

 50 cents; seed, 25 cents; hoeing and cleaning, $1.50; plowing four times, 

 $2; husking and cribbing, $2.25. Total, $8.90. J. S. LONG. 



WlLLIAMSPORT, PlCKAWAY COUNTY, O., ) 



November 23, 1877. j 



I am now prepared to give you a full report of my one acre of corn. 

 The acre of land used was a part of a pond which had remained idle for a 

 number of years, filled with water almost the year round. It was ditched 

 last spring, just before plowing, which I did the 1st of May. I planted the 

 14th of May, in rows three feet seven inches wide, and twenty-one inches in 

 the row, the variety known as the Kentucky, being white, large ears, deep 

 grains, and comparatively small cob. The seed used did n't come up as well 



