INDIAN CORN. 



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It was manured with about five cords of stable and hog manure 

 put in the hills, and planted the 7th and 8th of May with six or 

 more kernels to a hill, of the Smutty White or Plymoutli 

 County corn. June 9tli it was cultivated and hoed the first 

 time ; July 2d it was cultivated and hoed tlie second time, 

 which was all the hoeing the field had. September 16th the 

 stalks were cut, cured and housed. The harvesting was fin- 

 ished November 2d, when we had one hundred and fifty-tliree 

 baskets equal to those gathered and weighed by the committee 

 when on the ground, making the yield eighty-three bushels and 

 thirty-seven pounds, at the rate of eighty-seven bushels and 

 forty-seven pounds per acre. The expense and profit I reckon 

 as follows : — 



Dr. 



Ploughing, . . 



Harrowing and burning roots, 



Five cords of manure. 



Half bushel of seed corn. 



Planting, .... 



Cultivating and hoeing twice, . 



Cutting and curing stalks. 



Harvesting, .... 



Taxes and interest on land, 



Ashes from burnt brush and roots estimated at 



$79 75 



Cr. 



83 bushels and 37 pounds corn at $1, 

 4,900 pounds top stalks at $15 per ton, 

 6,000 pounds butts and husks at $7.50, 



Profit, . . . , 



$63 16 



Or at the rate of $66.31 per acre, without adding any thing 

 for the manure left in the ground. 



Milton, November 7, 1860. 



