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Two bushels of soft corn, 

 Two tons fodder, 



Expenses for 

 Ploughing and harrowing. 

 Manure, seed, and planting, 

 Hoeing, - - - 



Harvesting and husking. 

 Interest on land, 



$7i 37 



40 75 



Net gain. 



$33 62 



J. Hooker^s Statement. 



My corn crop was raised on a lot of three acres, being a por- 

 tion of the land on which my apple-orchard is growing. In 

 1849, crops of corn, carrots, and turnips were raised on the 

 ground, and in 1850, corn and barley. The ground was ma- 

 nured last spring by the application of about five cords of com. 

 post manure to the acre, and it was spread over the ground and 

 ploughed in. The seed was a small kind of corn (of eight 

 rows) from Worcester county, called Canada corn — known here 

 also as the Demond corn. It was planted with a seed-sower in 

 drills three and a half feet one way, and two feet the other — it 

 was twice cultivated and hoed — it was not hilled at all — it was 

 cut and stooked up in the field in September, about the middle 

 of the month ; and was all gathered into the barn in the course 

 of the month of October. The yield was two hundred and 

 twenty-five bushels, being seventy-five bushels to the acre. 



Value of crop, at eighty cents per bushel, $180 00 



Corn-stalk fodder, - - - 27 00 



One fourth manure back, - - 15 00 



Expense for 



Fifteen cords of manure, and labor, - $60 00 



Seed — three pecks, _ _ _ 75 



Ploughing, planting with seed-sower, - 6 50 



Hoeing twice, - - - - 6 00 

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$222 00^ 



