INDIAN CORN. 



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3^ feet apart each way ; five quarts of yellow eight-rowed 

 corn was used to the acre ; cultivated three times each way ; 

 hoed twice. Harvested September 30, by cutting up at 

 the bottom and stooking in the field. November 5, hauled 

 to the barn, husked and weighed, giving 8,823 pounds of corn 

 on the cob, weighing 40 pounds to the basket of a bushel, 

 220|-| bushels of ears, giving a fraction over 110 bushels 

 of shelled corn to the acre. 



Expenses on the above : 

 To interest and taxes on land, .... 

 six cords of manure and spreading, etc., one-half 



for present crop, .... 

 ploughing $5, rolling and harrowing $3, 

 seed and planting, .... 

 cultivating and hoeing, 

 harvesting and husking, . 



Credit by 110 bushels of corn at $1 per 



bushel, $110 00 



Credit by 6 tons corn-fodder at $10 per ton, 60 00 



$7 50 



>2 50 



170 00 



Balance in favor of the crop, 

 November 9, 1874. 



. $107 50 



Statement of Marh F. Hill. 

 Account of expense of one acre of field-corn raised by 

 Mark F. Hill, oil the Dummer Academy Farm, in Byfield, 

 1874 : 



Dr. 



To seven cords barn-manure, one-half to present 

 crop, .... 

 ploughing once, 

 harrowing once, 

 seed, .... 

 planting, 



hoeing with horse-hoe twice, 

 thinning and weeding, 



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