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liuiidred cords. In winter the food for the stock consists of 

 cut hay and corn fodder mixed witli scalded meal, to which is 

 added a liberal supply of roots. The amount of butter in one 

 year has been two thousand and two pounds, which, allowing 

 one cow for the use of the family, makes about two hundred 

 pounds per cow. 



The poultry account stands thus : — Eighty hens of different 

 varieties — the Black Spanish predominating and preferred — 

 have been kept. The number of eggs produced in one year, 

 four hundred and ninety-six dozen. Sixty chickens have been 

 raised, which, together with the eggs, make the sum of one 

 hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty cents. Their food 

 has been corn and oats, at a cost of forty-six dollars ; one 

 barrel of bone-dust has been used, which adds two dollars and 

 fifty cents to the expense. A profit is left of sixty-eight dollars 

 and fifty cents. 



In the statement which follows, stating the labor expended on 

 each crop, ten hours has been considered a day's work, at one 

 dollar per day. The same has also been charged for the labor of 

 a horse, which has been introduced whenever it was practicable. 



Oats. — One acre was sown April 10th, with three bushels of 

 seed per acre. Harvested sixty bushels. Allowing the straw 

 to pay for the threshing, the expense for labor would be seven 

 dollars, or about twelve cents per bushel. 



Corn. — This crop was raised in three separate fields, planted 

 in rows four feet apart with the hills three feet. 



Lot No. 1 was on the plains. Twenty dollars worth of fish 

 guano was applied to three acres ; planted May 22d. Twenty- 

 four days' labor were required to cultivate the crop till it was 

 ready to cut up. Allowing the fodder to pay for cutting up 

 and husking, the cost of labor is eight dollars per acre, or 

 thirty-two cents ^er bushel for the corn. 



Lot No. 2, containing four acres, was manured in the drill 

 with fifteen cords of stable manure. The amount of labor per 

 acre till the time of cutting up was eleven days. The amount 

 of corn per acre was about forty-five bushels, produced at a 

 cost of twenty-five cents per bushel. 



Lot No. 3, containing one and one-fourth acre, was manured 

 at the rate of ten cords per acre, spread broadcast and ploughed 

 under. The yield of corn was at the rate of sixty bushels per 



