1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEIHER. 



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prepared as aliove. The produce of the four rows 

 from the unprepared seed, was eleven bushels and 

 a half. The produce of the four rows from tlio 

 prepared seed, was seventeen bushels — a difference 

 of live and a half bushels of ears in one hundred 

 and twentj'^ hills J" 



It takes about six quarts of corn to plant an 

 acre, at the usual distances, say three and a half 

 feet each way ; so that for six quarts of seed 

 corn, six ounces of copperas would be required — 

 an ounce to a quart is near enough as a general 

 rule. 



Wheat growere and gardeners well know the 

 value of liming wheat, and steeping garden seeds 

 where thej desire an early and vigorous growth. 

 A little aid to the corn plant while the weather, 

 perhaps, is too cool, or the plant does not find the 

 Sustenance it needs in its immediate vicinity, will 

 give it such a start as to keep it in advance of 

 other plants not so treated throughout the season. 

 We can see this in the fields of smaller grains, 

 where a plant which started early and vigorously 

 keeps the precedence over its fellows throughout 

 the season, and in the autumn has perfected a crop 

 proportionately large,* • 



Fer tb£ JVeiv Kngtand Fariaer. 



PROFIT IN RAISING CORN. 



Friend Brown : — Agreeable to my promise,' I 

 now send you, iis neiir as I can, the cost of rais- 

 ing and the profits of three acres of Indian corn, 

 grown on my farm the [last year. Tlie land was a 

 light, sandy loam, and had been in grass 7 years, 

 one-third part of it very thin and poor, and the 

 crop suffered considerably by the dry weather, 

 the following is the account : 



l>a. 



Manure, (i82, one-half of it) , 41,00 



Plowing 12,00 



Harrowing 3,00 



Furrowing, one way 1.50 



Seed 1,00 



PlanUn^' - 4,60 



Hoeing, ti)ree times , 18,00 



Cutting and getting stalks 8,00 



Harvesting 18,00 



Bent of laud 18,00 



Total expenses $125,00 



Deduct fodder 4 5,00 



ashes droptin the hill, a large handful to 2 or 3 

 hills, and the work charged at ^1,00 per day, al- 

 though some of iteost me much less. By t!ie above 

 it will be seen that a man must raise about 32 

 bushels per acre, to pay the expenses of manur- 

 ing and cultivating. B. F. Cutter. 

 Pelkam, N. H., March., 1854. 



Cost of corn $80,00 



Ce. 



Cr. by fsdder 45,00 



Or. by 150 bushels corn 160,00 



Net pro6 ts $70,00 



Cost of corn per bushel 43J cents. 



Pro&t per acre $23,33} 



Coat, pei- acre, of cultivation ..$41,66 6-10 



Of course, the cost of cultivating Corn must 

 vary much with tl)e different kinds ot land. The 

 above was free from stones, and very easy of cul- 

 tivation, generally, but was infested with witch 

 frass that made the expense of hoeing much greater, 

 'he manure is estimated at $1,00 per load of 30 

 bushels, was composted in the barn cellar, mostly, 

 and was good — was plowed in U inches deep. 

 There was a compost of plaster, hen manure and 



CONCORD FARMER'S CLUB. 



Teik.sdav EviiXi.sc;, .March 31, 1854. 



The subject for discussion was — "In what way 

 can our milk be disposed of to the best advan- 

 tage." 



Dea, Tai'bell submitted the following statement 

 as the result of his experience, in selling milk and 

 making butter. 



He keeps eight cows uniformly — when milk 

 sells at 18 cents in summer and 22 cents in winter, 

 per can of 8 qts., — he receives §25 less than he 

 would, if he made the same into butter. When 

 milk sells for 19 cents in summer, and 23 cents in 

 winter, his 8 cows yield him .><11,50 leas than they 

 would if he made butter. When he sells his milk 

 in summer for 21 cents, and in winter for 27 cents, 

 which is the price for the present year, he receives 

 jf;25 more than he would, if the same milk were 

 made into butter. He docs not take the labor in- 

 to consideration in the foregoing statements, but 

 thinks it would cost $25 more this year, to make 

 butter, than to sell the milk, thus making a differ- 

 ence of $50 this year, between soiling milk and 

 making butter, — the same being in favor of sell- 

 ing tlie milk. Dea. Tarbell furnished the follow- 

 ing statement of income from 8 cows, for 3 years. 



In 1S46, he sold niiik for 41,51 



Uu tter 152,27 



Calves 46,79 



Value of skim milk 20,00 



Vxliie of butter used in family 32,50 $293,07 



In 1817, he sold milk to ajaount of 36,99 



Butter 155,08 



CiUves 47,20 



ViUue of skim milk 20,00 



Value of buUerused 31,50 290,77 



In 184S, he sold milk to amount of 231,25 



Calves 35,32 206,57 



The Dea. gives his cows no grain except a very 

 little in the spring, 



E.WooD,Jr., has milked 23 cows during the past 

 winter ; each cow has given him over $t)0 worth of 

 milk. He gives each cow 4 quarts of grain per 

 day, 2 quarts of oil meal and 2 quarts of Indian 

 meal or shorts — amounting in value to $18 per 

 year for each cow. Mr. Wood thinks it more 

 profitable to sell milk than to make butter, at the 

 present prices for each. 



Dr. Rkvnolds thinks making butter would 

 be more profitable than sidling milk, if good but- 

 ter cows were selected, lie thinks from one-third 

 to one-half of all the cows selected for milk, are 

 not good cows for butter. 



J.\cobB. Farmer, thinks if the farmer lias suf- 

 ficient help, it will be more profitable to make 

 butter ; but if he has to hire his female help, it 



