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with a one-horse drill, sixteen inches apart, on the second day of May. The 

 seed was yellow dent, and was as sound as seed-corn can be, came up well, 

 was plowed with double-shovel May llth and hoed May 12th, plowed with 

 two-horse cultivator May 23d, June llth and June 23d, and hoed again July 

 7th. All the extra labor that was performed on this acre was more care iu 

 doing the work and one additional hoeing. This made the expense of rai*- 

 iug it only a trifle more than of ordinary cultivation, and the results about 

 twenty bushels of good corn more. We had one drawback in the shape 

 of a big storm about the middle of August, which damaged it to the ex- 

 tent of from fifteen to twenty-five bushels ; at least, that was the estimate 

 put upon it by the man who helped to gather it. 



Respectfully, GEO. BIDLE. 



[The product of this acre, as certified by two persons, was eighty-two 

 bushels and ten pounds.] 



ELLSWORTH, McLEAN COUNTY. ILL. , ) 

 November 23, 1877. j 



My club acre of corn weighed on Fairbanks scales, net, 7,075 pounds. 

 Taking 70 pounds for a bushel, there would be 101 bushels and 5 pounds. 

 I husked and weighed on the 13th and 15th inst. The variety was the yel- 

 low Dent. The laud is prairie bottom, and been in cultivation but three 

 seasons only. Depth of soil 18 inches, light and sandy loam, and black as 

 the "ace of spades." It was broken up to the depth of ten inches on Sat- 

 urday, the 26th of May last, and immediately afterward harrowed level and 

 planted on the following Monday (the 28th), using the common two-horse 

 planter, making the rows 3 feet 8 inches wide, and dropping the hills 2 feet 

 7 inches apart ; had an average of two stalks to the hill. As soon as planted 

 I rolled the ground, and as soon as the corn was two inches high I began to 

 work it with the "Bloomington two-horse double-shovel cultivator." I gave 

 it three plowings with this, and "laid it by" with a one-horse "Barsharo 

 plow;" I cultivated through "one way," as it is called. I made use of no 

 fertilizers or manure of any kind. I had three and one-half acres in this 

 strip of land, and gave it all the same attention, and the result was 310 

 bushels. Now, the cost of my one acre was : For breaking up with two 

 horses and hand, $1 ; harrowing, 50 cents; seed, 20 cents; planting, 50 cents; 

 rolling, 25 cents; plowing three times with cultivator, $1.50; plowing once 

 with Barshare, 50 cents; harvesting, at 2 cents per bushel, S2.52; total 

 cost, $6.97. 



David E. Arrowsmith, surveyor; Willard C. Banks, weigher; W. W. 

 Harsha, witness to gathering and weighing. DANIEL ARROWSMITH. 



P. S. Largest production from single grain, one large stalk and sucker 

 stocks bearing three ears and one "nubbin," weight 2 pounds \\ ounces, 

 cob and corn. D. A. 



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