144 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



The entire cost of production and gathering for the acre is $8.60. We 

 averaged the piece at eighty-five bushels. My premium bushel of the same 

 variety took sixty-one ears. This was thoroughly dried by artificial heat, 

 heat, and weighed to-day, November 24th. If necessary, all the above 

 will be certified to when required. GEORGE L. HOOVER. 



BLOOMINGTON, CLINTON COUNTY, O. , ) 

 November 24, 1877. j 



I send you the result of my premium acre of corn, gathered the 21st 

 and 22d of this month. The acre was measured and weighed by two disin- 

 terested men named J. P. Delaplane and J. M. Earley. The land is sugar- 

 tree, laying open to the south; the first crop, a timothy sod ; no manure; cul- 

 tivated with a double-shovel plow ; sufficient harrowing before the corn was 

 planted; plowed three times; drilled the 18th of May ; a large yellow corn 

 called the Learning; weighed out one hundred and six bushels, allowing 

 seventy pounds to the bushel. JONAS SPEARS. 



P. P. DELAPLANE, J. M. EARLEY, witnesses. 



NEW LANCASTER, TIPTON, COUNTY, IND.,) 

 November 20, 1877. j 



The following is a report of my one hundred bushel acre of corn : It 

 was black walnut land, and a very stiff red-top sod of eleven years' standing. 

 I broke it in March, and planted it the 1st of May with a Hoosier drill, 

 twenty inches apart, with a large speckled corn, a gourd-seed variety; har- 

 rowed once; hoed once; plowed five times; no manure. Now for the result: 

 My choice acre made 110 bushels and 33 pounds; the second 105 bushels 

 and 13 pounds. The ground and corn were measured by H. Lamb, C. Van- 

 ness, and myself. Now for the expenses: Breaking, $1.50; three times har- 

 rowing, 50 cents; furrowing and planting, $1; plowing five times, $2.50; 

 husking and cribbing, $2.50; hoeing once, $1.50; total, $9.50. 



WILLIAM LAMM. 



COLES COUNTY, ILL., November 26, 1877. 



The undersigned respectfully reports the following concerning his club acre 

 of corn. The land on which it grew is timber land, and has been in culti- 

 vation eleven years. The soil is black walnut land, underdrained with three- 

 inch tile two and a half feet under ground, and runs very near through the 

 center of said club acre. The laud has been in corn five seasons, and the 

 balance of the time in small grain and clover pasture ; has never been ma- 

 nured; was sown in rye and clover in 1875, and was pastured with cattle and 

 hogs, rye and all, until it was planted in corn last spring; allowed no stock 

 to roam over in the latter part of winter and spring when the ground was 

 soft. The ground was broken about six inches deep the latter part of April 

 and put in as fine condition for planting as the harrow and roller could make 

 it. It was laid off with a marker three feet, nine inches apart, was drilled 



