INDIAN CORN. 159 



The corn was cut np and stacked the third week in Septem- 

 ber, and husked in October, and the account stands as follows : 



Dr. 



Team and hand labor, .... $87 75 



54 loads manure, 54 00 



Interest on land, . . . . . 54 00 



Taxes, ....... 5 00 



-$200 75 



Cr. 



By 2971 bushels corn at 80 cents, . . $238 00 

 Corn fodder, 27 00 



-$265 00 



Net, $64 25 



Hadley, November 14, 1853. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



Statement of N. 6f B. Smith. 



The piece of corn we offer for premium, contains one acre 

 and five rods. It was mowed three years previous to 1853. 

 and not manured during that time. In December, 1852, it was 

 ploughed with the Michigan plough, eight inches deep. A com- 

 post was made upon the lot — containing about twenty loads of 

 clear manure and thirty bushels of oyster-shell lime, slacked in 

 a brine made from two bushels of salt. This compost was 

 spread upon the furrows and harrowed in. The corn was 

 planted by a corn-planter, on the 14th of May. Ten bushels 

 of shell lime and ashes were dropped by a machine. The corn 

 was hoed three times, and grass seed was sowed at the third 

 hoeing. On the tenth of September, we harvested the crop. 



