NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



405 



Value of straw the acre, 



5,00 



Value of whole crop the acre, 31,80 



Cost of cultivation, including interest on land, 22,00 



Profits per acre, 



S9,80 



Corn, average crop in Vermont, 40 bushels the acre. 



" " ■ 29,20 



4,00 



" " price the bushel 73c, is 



Value of stover the acre, 



Value of whole crop the acre, 



Cost of cultivation, including interest, 



Profits per acre, 



33,20 

 16,00 



$17,20 



Wheat, average crop in Vermont,20 bushels the acre. 



" " price $1,34, is 26,80 



Value of straw, 4,00 



Value of the whole crop the acre, 30,80 



Cost of cultivation, including interest on land, 20,00 



Profits per acre, 



$10,80 



Corn, average crop in Ohio, 50 bushels the acre. 



" " price 28 cents, is 



Value of stover, 



14,00 

 3,00 



Value of whole crop the acre, 17,00 



Cost of cultivation, including interest on land, 7,00 



Profits per acre, 



$10,00 



Wheat, average crop in Ohio, 20 bushels the acre. 



" " price 78 cents, is 



Value of straw, 



Value of whole crop the acre, 



Cost of cultivation, including interest, 



15.60 

 3.00 



18,60 

 8,00 



Profits per acre, 



$10,60 



Corn average crop in Indiana, 60 bushels the acre. 



" " price 26 cents, is 15,60 



Value of stover, 1,00 



Value of whole crop the acre, 16,60 



Cost of cultivation, including interest on land, 7,20 



Profits per acre. 



$9,40 



Wheat, average crop in Indiana, 20 bushels the acre. 



" " price 75 cents, is 15,00 



Value of straw, 1,00 



Value of whole crop the acre, 16,00 



Cost of cultivation, including interest on land, 8,00 



Profits per acre. 



$8,00 



Corn, average crop in Illinois, 60 bushels the acre. 

 " " price 26 cents, is 15,60 



Value of stover, 



1,00 



Value of whole crop the acre, 16.60 



Cost of cultivation, including interest on land, 7,20 



Profits per acre. 



$9,40 



Wheat, average crop in Illinois, 20 bushels the acre. 



" " price the bushel 75 cents, is 15,00 



Value of straw, 1,00 



Value of whole crop the acre, 16,00 



Cost of cultivation, including interest on land, 8,00 



Profits per acre, $8,00 



Profit on one acre of corn in Massachusetts, 19,00 



N. Hampshire, 18,00 

 Vermont, 17.20 





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Average of the three States, 



$18,06 



Profit on one acre of corn in Ohio. 



" " " Indiana, 



" " " Illinois, 



Average of the three States, 



Balance of profits on one acre of corn in 

 favor of New England States, 



Profit on one acre of wheat in Massachusetts, 11.12 



N. Hampshire, 9,80 



10,00 

 9,40 

 9,40 



$9,60 



8,46 





Vermont, 



10,80 

 $10,57 



10,60 

 8,00 

 8,00 



$8^ 



Average of the three States, 



Profit, on one acre of wheat in Ohio, 



" " " Indiana, 



" " " Illinois, 



Average of the three States, 



Balance of profits on one acre of wheat in 

 favor of New England States, 1,70 



The corn grown in Massachusetts, Vermont and 

 New Hampshire, is of the yellow flint variety, and 

 will weigh 60 pounds the bushel; allowing 4 pounds 

 of corn to make one pound of pork, one bushel will 

 make 15 pounds. The average price of pork in 

 Boston market for ten years ending with the year 

 1850, was 6 12-100 dollars the hundred. One bush- 

 el of corn fed to hogs would come to 91 80-100 

 cents; 40 bushels, the average crop in Massachu- 

 setts, Vermont, and New Hampshire, would come 

 to 36,72 



Average value of stover in these three Stales, 5,66 



Whole value of one acre when fed to hogs, $42,38 

 Deduct average cost of cultivation in the 



three States, 



18,66 



Profits on one acre of corn when fed to hogs 



in the three New England States, $23,72 



Corn grown in the States of Ohio, Indiana and 

 Illinois, is of the soft kind, and will not weigh 

 more than 56 pounds the bushel ; one bushel will 

 make 14 pounds of pork. The average price paid 

 for pork in Cincinnati, Ohio, by one of the largest 

 dealers in Boston, for ten years, ending with the 

 year 1850, was 2 95-100 dollars the hundred. One 

 bushel of corn fed to pork would come to 41 30-100 

 cents; 56| bushels, the average crop per acre in 

 the three States, would come to 23,40 



Average value of stover in these three States, 1 ,66 



Whole value of one acre when fed to hogs, $25,06 

 Deduct average cost of cultivation in the 



three States, 7,12 



Profits on one acre of corn when fed to pork 

 in the three Western States, $17,93 



Balance of profits on one acre of corn when 

 fed to pork in favor of the New England 

 States of $5,79 



Princeton, Nov. 15, 1851. j. b. 



Remarks. — The corn crop is, in our opinion, the 

 most profitable field crop produced in New Eng- 

 land. It has been somewhat neglected of late, be- 

 cause it was supposed that other crops would pay 

 better. Such lucid comparisons as are brouglit to- 

 gether above, by our correspondent, will go far to 

 correct the error under vviiich many are laboring. 



