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it, spread nine loads of compost manure in the furrows, and then 

 planted with a planter. The rows were two and two-thirds feet 

 apart, and the hills two and one-third feet. I hoed three times, 

 with much care the first and second times, to remove all weeds 

 and permit only the healthy stalks of corn to grow. I left 

 from six to ten stalks in a hill. I harvested the 7th and 8th of 

 October, scraped it the second week in November, and had 968 

 lbs. of brush. My seed was light, I think about one-third of a 

 crop. I estimate it at twelve dollars, and would not sell it for 

 less than that. 



Value of crop : — 

 968 lbs. of brush at 6c., 

 Seed, ....... 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing and planting. 

 Hoeing, harvesting and scraping, 

 Interest on land, .... 



Net profit, $14 08 



Sunderland, Nov. 15, 1857. 



CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 



ESSEX. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



In our report of last year, we wrote with some emphasis of 

 the great advantage that would accrue to the public, could we 

 but raise our own molasses. This year the Chinese sugar cane 

 has been summoned upon the stand, and interrogated of its 

 capacities for this end, at almost every farm house in the North. 

 On its introduction, some viewed it as a cane for the back of 



