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Drawing and spreading manure, 



Furrowing, 40 cts. ; seed, 25 cts. ; planting, $3, 



Ploughing and harrowing among corn, 



Hoeing and weeding, 2| days, 



Cutting stalks, . • . 



Deduct for 28 rods not in the acre. 



Harvesting, 7 days, $7; horse, $1, 

 Whole expense of one acre, 



PROFIT. 



84 74-75 bushels corn, at 75 cts.. 

 Top stalks, $5 ; husks, ^8, 



$45 87 

 8 00 



$22 87 



I have planted and cultivated my corn, in nearly the same 

 manner as above for six years past, and have had an average 

 crop of over sixty bushels to an acre, each year, except in 

 1848, when the wire-worms killed nearly half that was plant- 

 ed. This year I mixed sulphur with the seed which prevent- 

 ed them from eating it before it came up. The first year my 

 corn was hoed twice ; since then, I have hoed but once, and 

 after that, pulled or dug up the weeds, if any appeared, which 

 I think is as well. I plough as near as I can to the corn and 

 not start the roots, soon after it comes up, turning the dirt to 

 the middle of the row, and leaving it several days to warm 

 before harrowing it back ; it then forms a fine, soft bed for the 

 roots of the corn. 



Taunton, Nov. 28, 1849. 

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