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ty. His advice was by no means to shock the corn, thus cut 

 up and gathered, upon grass ground as is often done on the 

 borders of the field, because the grass is likely to exclude the 

 air from the bottom of the shocks. Upon the whole my own 

 judgment, especially liable as we are to early frosts, is to cut 

 up and shock the corn as above described as soon as it is well 

 glazed ; and it is a safe error to do it too early rather than too 

 late. The fodder in such case is always of superior quality. 



Of the expense of cultivating an acre of corn in this county, 

 having gone fully into this subject in places where the cost of 

 labor and modes of cultivation do not essentially differ from the 

 same here, I shall give but few estimates. Labor is reckoned 

 at one dollar per day. 



In Northfield, the estimate was made as follows : 



Ploughing, . . . . . . • 



Di'agging, 



6 cords of manure in the hill, . . . , 



Getting out and putting in the hill. 

 Seed corn 1 peck planted 3J feet each way, 

 Planting, ........ 



1st hoeing with man and horse, 



2d hoeing, $1 17, 3d hoeing, $1 17, . 



Gathering and husking, 



Fodder equal to 1 ton of hay, 

 40 bs. of corn, at 1 dollar, 



$50 00 



Balance in favor of corn, $17 10|^ 



Another farmer in Northfield gives the following estimate of 

 the expense of an acre of corn. 



Ploughing, $2 50 ; harrowing, $2 50 ; holeing, 50, 5 50 



Six bushels leeched ashes, 10 



