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of this late working I have never, I believe, seen the fields so clean of weeds 

 as they appeared after the corn was harvested. This item alone, I think, 

 has well repaid the extra cultivating required by our dry weather. But we 

 must come to the club acre. Our acre was a clay loam ; in wheat the pre- 

 vious season, well set with clover, manured with twelve loads barn-yard ma- 

 nure and plowed about a week before planting-time. Planted May 12th in 

 checks three and a half feet apart each way, and three grains to the hill. 

 Worked four times with shovel plow, and pulled what weeds could not be 

 plowed out. Husked and weighed November 12th. Product, seventy-eight 

 bushels of seventy pounds. Cost of crop as follows : Hauling twelve loads 

 manure, $3 ; plowing and harrowing, $3 ; marking and planting, $1 ; culti- 

 vating, $2; husking seventy-eight bushels, at four cents per bushel, $3.12; 

 total, $12.12. On the creditor side we have seventy-eight bushels of corn at 

 fifty cents, worth $39, leaving a net profit of 826.88. Variety, pure yellow 

 Dent. We did not cut off and save the fodder of this acre, or we would 

 have $3.12 to add to the profit, as the fodder when saved will pay for husk- 

 ing. I feel satisfied, had our season at the beginning been more favorable 

 the corn would all have come up, and we would have realized the one 

 hundred bushels, as this acre did not average over two stalks to the hill. 

 However, the yield was high enough above our usual average to pay the en- 

 tire cost of production. THEO. KLINKER. 



GERMANTOWN, O., December 1, 1877. 



I went into the "Hundred Bushel Club" to try what I could do toward 

 increasing the yield of corn, and have been successful, raising a hundred 

 bushels. My acre is rich twin-bottom, two years in clover; no manure. 

 Ground broke in fall, and harrowed last of April, and checked off 4 by 3^ ; 

 planted 8th of May, covered with hoe ; dropped four grains, and thinned to 

 three stalks; then, before corn came up, went over with drag, and after up 

 with Thomas harrow, and after that with double-shovel, using narrow bull- 

 tongue until last plowing. My plan was to cultivate as level as possible ; 

 plowed four times ; did not give any hoeing, as ground was very clean. Ex- 

 pense of raising, $5 ; and here is the result : 105 bushels and 45 pounds. 

 The variety of corn is very large, white, heavy cob, and deep grain ; do not 

 know any name for it. S. LINDEMUTH. 



ELMWOOD, MADISON COUNTY, IND. , j 

 December 3, 1877. j 



I am ready to report my success as a hundred-bushel corn-grower. The 

 land is a sandy clay soil, having been timbered with mulberry, black walnut, 

 red-bud, sugar-tree, red-elm, burr-oak, blue-ash, and poplar, deadened some 

 five or six years, and attained a pretty good set of blue-grass; was cleared, and 

 having grown three successive corn crops and a crop of oats in 1876, which 

 was a good crop, but, being badly tangled and very stumpy, I pastured with 

 hogs. Then I fed about a thousand bushels of corn to my fat hogs in the fall 



