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compost manure was spread upon it, then ploughed eight inches 

 deep, — taking a small furrow-slice, so that the land was not in- 

 verted. On the fourth of the month, it was marked out in 

 rows, four feet apart, each way ; then planted, putting manure 

 in the hill, of the same kind and quantity as had been spread. 

 The large, eight-rowed corn was used for seed, allowing five 

 kernels per hill. During the month of June, the cultivator 

 was often passed through the growing corn, hut little was done 

 with the hoe. The surface was kept level, and sown with 

 grass seed on the 23d of July. The top stalks were cut the 

 first week in September, — corn harvested November 1st and 

 2d. The product, as you will see by an accompanying certifi- 

 cate, was 6,365 net pounds ; allowing seventy-five pounds per 

 bushel, making eighty-four and thirteen-fifteenths bushels. 



$ 1 00 



Estimated Expenses of Cultivation. 



Ploughing with a pair of horses, in three hours. 



Two and and a half cords of barn cellar manure, at $7 



per cord, ..... 

 Four and a half cords of meadow mud and soil 

 Cost of mixing, two days' labor, 

 Carting and applying, 

 Dropping and covering corn, 

 Seed Corn, (one peck,) 

 Use of Cultivator, 

 Hoeing, 

 Furrowing, 



Cutting and binding top-stalks. 

 Harvesting, 



Estimated Value of Crop. 

 6,365 lbs., at one cent per lb.. 

 Value of Fodder, 



$80 65 

 On Aveighing seventy-five pounds of the corn, it was found, 

 on shelling, to measure one bushel, — the cobs weighing nine- 

 teen pounds. 



