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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



$30 00 



forty-seven baskets of ears, yielding, by estimated measure 

 ninety-seven bushels and nineteen quarts, or about one hundred 

 and eighteen bushels per acre. Tlie corn was planted about 

 the 15th of May, and was of the kind called Plymouth County, 

 or sonitty white. One-third of the field was moist land, and 

 yielded much better than the other part. 



Estimated cost of said crop : — 

 Fiv^e cords barnyard manure, at $6 per cord. 

 Carting out and spreading. 

 Ploughing the ground twice with horse, 

 Two days' planting, .... 

 Ploughing and hoeing twice, four days, 

 Cutting suckers, two days, 



" stalks, " " . 



" up but stalks, 

 Husking corn, 4 days. 

 Interest on land, at $200 per acre, 

 Taxes, about ..... 

 Value of seed, 



$71 25 



Value of the crop : — 

 97 bushels and 19 quarts corn, at $1 per bushel, $97 59 

 Suckers and top stalks, 2 tons, . . 20 00 



Buts and husks, 2 tons, . . . . 10 00 



Net profit on 133 rods, 



MiLTox, November 10, 1853. 



- 127 59 



. $56 34 



This certifies that I measured the land on which the corn of 

 Mr. P. Ruggles grew, and found that it contained 133 rods. 



Milton, October 27, 1853. 



Charles Breck, Surveyor. 



Report of Special Committee on Mr. Ruggles' Crop of Corn. 



The committee appointed at a meeting of the trustees of the 

 Norfolk Agricultural Society, on the 17th of November last, 

 report: That, in pursuance of that appointment, they have 

 visited the farm cultivated by Mr. Philemon Ruggles, in Milton, 



