146 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



LEXINGTON, SCOTT COUNTY, IND., December 5, 1877. 

 I now report for publication my success as a competitor for the prizes 

 offered to farmers. In my effort to raise one hundred bushels of corn on an 

 acre of land : Corn planted on the 17th day of May, on land that had been 

 in corn two seasons previous bottom land, sandy loam soil ; rows, three and 

 a half feet apart; hills, two and a half feet apart ; two stalks in a hill ; seed, 

 common white corn, yellow cob and deep, long grain ; cobs weighing only ten 

 pounds two ounces to the bushel; corn gathered and weighed in the ear on 

 the 19th of November, making ninety-one bushels and a fraction. 



SOLON T. HARDY. 



FOREST HILL, DECATUR COUNTY, IND. , ) 

 December 1, 1877. j 



I make a report of one acre of corn cultivated this season. My ground 

 was sandy. I drilled three feet seven inches apart, grains one foot apart, 

 and gave four plowings, with a common double-shovel plow. It was some- 

 what injured in our August drought, but made a. yield of eighty -eight aud 

 one-half bushels, and of the same forty-seven ears weighed just seventy-one 

 pounds. It was planted May 10th. H. J. POWNER. 



WEST RUSHVILLE, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, O., ) 

 November 26, 1877. } 



Having gathered my club acre of corn I now report to you. The 

 ground that I selected was a piece of sod, the soil a black loam. I plowed 

 it in March, harrowed it, then rolled it ; planted May 9th ; furrowed it 3 feet 

 9 inches each way ; planted three stalks in each hill. It made 68 bushels, 

 allowing 70 pounds to the bushel; plowed it four times with a two-horse cul- 

 tivator; the cost, $5 per acre; had seventeen acres in the same field that 

 averaged 60 bushels to the acre. WILLIAM EYMAN. 



CANTON, OHIO, December 5, 1877. 



There being so very few reports yet from members of the Corn Club, I 

 am afraid there will be some who, through failure to realize the 100 bushels, 

 will not deem a report of any consequence, and we shall not hear from them. 

 I have no doubt there are more of us who have realized under 100 bushels 

 than who reached or exceeded that figure. Probably the same circumstan- 

 ces of soil, and season did not attend any two members of the Club. While 

 members from the southern part of the State, and from the corn producing 

 sections of Indiana, reported favorable growing weather through the months 

 of July and August, we of Northern Ohio had a long and severe drought to 

 encounter. This necessitated us working our corn after it was as high as a 

 horse, to keep the soil loose and mellow, that it might better retain moisture. 

 Here was not only a chance to benefit the corn, but a still better chance to 

 kill the weeds, which always will appear in the cornfield. As a direct result 



