INDIAN CORN. 



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Expenses were as follows : — 

 Ninety-five loads of manure, at seventy-five cents, 

 Carting and spreading the same, 

 Seed corn, bought of Calvin Leavitt, 

 Ploughing, harrowing and furrowing, 

 Dropping manure, and planting. 

 Cultivating, ..... 

 Hoeing twice, .... 



Deducting two-thirds manure not exhausted, . 



til 25 



18 20 



50 



5 25 



4 18 



1 25 



10 40 



$106 03 

 47 50 



$58 53 



I consider the fodder to pay for harvesting and intcr.cst of 

 land. 



"West Bridgewatee, Mass. 



Calvin Leavitfs Statement. 



The acre of land that produced the crop of Indian corn en- 

 tered by me for premium, has been mowed the two past years 

 vrithout any dressing. On the 17th and 18th of May last, I 

 carted on thirty-two loads of stable manure, made the past 

 winter. I spread the same; ploughed the 19th, and planted 

 20th and 21st, about three feet (little more) one way, eighteen 

 inches the other; I put no manure in the hills. The corn 

 planted was the smutty white, or Leonard Hill corn. I planted 

 four kernels in each hill. I ran a cultivator between the rows 

 three times during the season, and hoed twice, the last time? 

 about the 20th of July. The 11th of October, the supervisor 

 harvested two rods, considered an average ; an estimate from 

 which made one hundred and nine and fifty-five eighty-fifths 

 bushels. Expenses : — 



Nine loads manure, $22 50 



Carti)]g, spreading manure and ploughing land, . 8 00 



Ploughing and planting, ..... 6 50 



Cultivating and hoeing, for the season, . . . 7 00 



Ten bushels of ashes, put on the hills at hoeing, . 1 50 



$45 50 



