INDIAN CORN. 171 



Cutting stalks and harvesting, . . . $14 00 



Taxes, 90 



Interest on the value of the land, at $150 per 



acre, at 6 per cent., is . . . . 10 71 



$103 36 



Value of the crop : — 

 356 baskets, or 178 bushels, at $1 per bushel, $178 00 



Stalks and husks, 35 00 



213 00 



Profit, $109 64 



Or at the rate of $67.45 per acre. 



Annexed is a certificate of the land, as surveyed by Charles 

 Breck, Esq., Surveyor. 



Milton, November 10, 1853. 



Milton, November 3, 1853. 



This certifies that I have measured the piece of land on which 

 the corn of Mr. J. R. Dow grew, and found it to contain one 

 acre, two roods, twenty rods. 



Charles Breck, Surveyor. 



P. Ruggles' Statement. 



The land on which the corn was raised was planted in 1852, 

 one-third with corn and two-thirds with potatoes, and was ma- 

 nured about the same as the present year. The soil is a good 

 loam, and has been cultivated many years. This spring it was 

 ploughed with a horse, after spreading about three-fifths of the 

 manure, the other two-fifths being put in the drills on which the 

 corn was planted, one kernel in a place on each side of the 

 drill, in a zig-zag form, about six inches apart. The drills were 

 from two and a half to three feet apart. The suckers, of which 

 there were a great many, were cut soon after the corn was silked 

 out, in order to let in the sun, the drills running nearly north 

 and south. I supposed, in the spring, that I had planted one 

 acre, but, by actual measurement, there was but one hundred 

 and thirty-three rods. The produce was one hundred and 



