212 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Statement of T. P. Huntington. 



My field of corn contains a fraction over two acres. About 

 May 1st, 1857, I ploughed in 650 pounds of guano. The 

 ground was prepared as usual, planted, cultivated, hoed three 

 times and the stalks were cut and stacked. I harvested one 

 hundred and sixty-two baskets of corn, one of which, after being 

 shelled and dried, yielded twenty quarts. 



Value of crop : — 

 162 baskets of 20 quarts each, equal to 



101^ bushels, at |1, . . . . |101 25 



Corn stalks, 10 00 



Husks, 3 00 



Expenses : — 

 Preparing ground and planting, 

 Cultivating and hoeing, 

 Cutting and stacking, . 

 Harvesting, .... 



$114 25 



$46 25 



Net profit, $68 00 



Hadley, November, 15, 1857. 



WHEAT 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



Statement of Josiah Gibbs. 



The land on which my crop of spring wheat grew, lies in the 

 north-west part of Framingham. In 1856, it was well manured, 

 and produced corn and potatoes. After the crop was taken off, 

 there was a thin dressing of dirty manure from a yard where 

 young cattle were yarded, ploughed in. The soil, loamy — about 



