ON GRAIN CROPS. 77 



MOSES PETTINGILL'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Grrain Crops. 



Gentlmen, — I offer for premium a crop of Indian Corn obtain- 

 ed from one acre of land, and measuring eighty-eight bushels. The 

 land was a dark loam, with a subsoil of yellow loam mixed with gravel. 

 The corn which I planted, is the large eight rowed yellow kind, the 

 same which I exhibited at Lynn, for two years past. The ground 

 was ploughed in September, 1845, cross-ploughed the first of May, 

 1846, with the Eagle plough. No. 25, ten inches in depth, two inches 

 in depth was then broken up. The ground was planted with corn in 



1846, with five cords of manure to the acre, and in the opinion of 

 good judges, it was estimated that there was seventy-five bushels of 

 corn to the acre. The Indian hills were split and harrowed in May 



1847, and four cords of manure from the barn-cellar was spread on 

 the ground, and ploughed in seven inches in depth, and furrowed 

 three feet one way, and four feet the other ; one cord of fine hog 

 manure was put in the hills. The ground was planted on the eigh- 

 teenth and nineteenth of May. It received two hoeings, at each 

 time the cultivator was used, the land was kept level, at the last time 

 of hoeing, grass seed was sowed. The seventeenth and eighteenth 

 of November it was cut up and harvested. 



Expenses of the Crop. 



The Land I value at $90 00 



Interest of the land, 5 40 



Five cords of manure, at $6, 30 00 



Heaving manure, 1 00 



Ploughing, harrowing and furrowing, 4 00 



Putting out manure, 2 00 



Dropping and covering the seed, 2 00 



Cultivating and hoeing twice, 6 00 



Toping the stalks, 1 00 



Harvesting and husking, 4 00 



$54 40 

 Value of crops, &c,, 



Half the manure, $15 00 



Eighty-eight bushels of com, 88 00 



Three tons of fodder, 24 00 



127 00 



