GRAIN CROPS. 59 



Cultivated once in eacli row, both ways. Cost of cultivation, 

 including weeding and thinning, 89. 



Harvested the last of September. Cost of harvesting, -16. 



Recapitulation. 



Cost of ploughing, . $5 00 



manure, ..... 

 seed and planting, 

 cultivation, ..... 

 harvesting, ..... 



Total, 



30 00 

 2 00 

 9 00 

 6 00 



852 00 



Product. 

 Fodder, 1,300 pounds, and 6,600 pounds ears of corn — equal 

 to 165 bushels — producing, when shelled, thirty-four and one- 

 half quarts to the bushel, and weighing sixty-three pounds to 

 the bushel. 



Remarks. 

 The crop in 1863, by the above statement, was grass. , After 

 taking it off I ploughed the land very lightly, as my custom is, 

 using one luan and a yoke of oxen. In the spring I ploughed 

 it eight inches deep, picked the stones, harrowed it twice, fur- 

 rowed and planted, as above. In ploughing deep we have great 

 advantage, being easier cultivated, standing the drought better, 

 and producing larger crops. The land in this part of the county, 

 with some exceptions, has been neglected. My method is to 

 plough deep, pulverize well and hoe three times, as it tends to 

 preserve the moisture and kill weeds. I never use the cultivator 

 the third time hoeing, as it exposes the fibres to the sun and 

 checks the growth of the corn. 



Statement of M. F. Hill. 

 The crop of 1863, on the field on which the corn is planted, 

 which I offer for premium, was grass, no manure being used. 

 The crop of 1864 was corn, and the quantity of land one acre. 

 Fifty loads of coarse manure, ploughed in, and ten loads com- 

 post — half muck and half manure — put in the hole, in 1864. 

 The subsoil is clay. 



