1G8 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Cutting the stalks and binding, 

 Cutting and carting the corn, . 

 Husking and weighing, . . 41 

 Interest on land, . 



Net profit, 830 90 



Statement of Allen Smith. 

 The acre of corn entered by me for premium, is a part of 

 three and one-half acres. The soil is a black, sandy loam gen- 

 erally, and a part of it mixture of gravel. The condition of the 

 land was poor. It was sowed down to grass in the spring of 

 1856, and has had no manure since until last winter (1860). 

 I applied thirty-five loads of barn manure, each load containing 

 about twenty bushels. It was ploughed the last of April, seven 

 inches deep, and planted the 1st of May, three feet apart one 

 way by two feet the other. I applied about three hundred 

 gallons of liquid manure in the hills. For some reason unac- 

 counted for, not more than one-fourth part came up. The seed 

 was native corn. It looked well, but I have since thought that 

 it was injured by the early frost of 1860. It was planted over 

 the last of May, and came up well, but did not do so well as 

 that which came up the first planting. It was cultivated and 

 hoed three times, and I should have hoed it the fourth time had 

 it not been for the army worm, which made its appearance about 

 the last of July ; and as there was considerable dog's grass 

 among the corn, I thought they would feed on that instead of 

 the corn. Fortunately they did but little damage to it, although 

 some pieces were wholly destroyed by them. The stalks were 

 cut and stooked on the same day in the second week of Septem- 

 ber ; in about twelve days they were taken to the barn. On 

 the 22d of October commenced harvesting. The result is as 

 follows : — 



VALUE OF CROP. 



4,640 pounds ears good corn, equal to 58 bushels shelled 



corn, worth 80 cents per bushel, .... $46 40 



3,118 pounds stalks, at 810 per ton, . . . . 17 59 



2 tons butts and husks, worth 85 per ton, . . 10 00 



400 pounds pig corn, 2 00 



875 99 



