148 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



and winter on said ground. Plowed the ground in March, $2 ; harrowing the 

 last week in April, both ways, 81 ; drilling, May 10th, three feet 4 inches wide 

 by twenty inches in the row, 50 cents, with white and red-striped corn, pre- 

 mium of Madison County, a thorough hand-hoeing at about five inches high, 

 $1 ; harrowing with two-horse harrow the next week, 50 cents; plowed four 

 times with two-horse cultivator, $1.25; and one plowing about the 10th of 

 July, with single-shovel, two furrows between each row, 50 cents ; husking 

 and cribbing, $2 ; total expense, $8.75. The ground was measured by Henry 

 Yohe, J. F. Stephens, and myself. The corn was weighed in the barrel, with 

 steelyards drawing 162 pounds, by William J. Grover, Louis C. Riley, Henry 

 Yohe, and myself, making 103 bushels and 12 pounds; selecting 64 ears, 

 which weighed 70 pounds. All this is good, honest work. 



DANIEL YOHE. 



The average yield per acre of the nineteen most successful 

 growers was a fraction over ninety-seven bushels. If you will 

 carefully examine these reports you will see that, in most cases, 

 the corn was planted a little closer than four feet each way, and 

 that there was an unusual amount of work done in the way of 

 harrowing and rolling before the corn was planted. The reports 

 of the cost of growing these crops are imperfect, as some seem 

 to adopt one standard of wages and some another; but, taking 

 them as they are given, they average a little less than nine dol- 

 lars per acre, and, if we allow five dollars per acre for rent of 

 land, it shows the cost of the corn to be less than fifteen cents 

 per bushel. It will also be noticed that but two of those re- 

 porting used manure of any kind, but a majority planted on sod 

 land. In the one case where the grower foots up a loss on his 

 crop, he has charged all the manure ($14) to the crop, which is 

 obviously unfair, for this manure will benefit several succeeding 

 crops. The facts suggested by these reports show that the 

 adoption of a rotation which would give a clover sod for corn, 

 on which there had been a liberal application of manure for 

 a previous wheat crop, together with thorough preparation 

 of the soil, would often enable us to double the yield of our 

 corn crop. 



Seed-corn. We can not expect a good crop of corn with- 

 out a good stand, and our chances for a heavy crop are increased 

 if the seed is not only certain to sprout, but also to make a 

 strong growth. 



