INDIAN CORN. 103 



Dr. 

 Cost of crop, $64 92 



Cr. 

 Fodder, 4.82 tons, at $8, 38 56 



Total cost of 1201 bushels corn (85 lbs. per bush.), . . $26 36 

 Or, cost, per bushel, 21 T 8 g 



All which is respectfully submitted, the crop given being 

 in accordance with your finding. 



HAMPDEN. 



Statement of H. M. Sessions of South Wilbraham. 



The five acres of corn inspected by your Committee were 

 planted May 24 and 25. The crop was preceded by a crop of 

 corn and potatoes. Seventy-five two-horse loads of manure, 

 or about twenty-five cords, were ploughed under in the spring, 

 and a compost of plaster and sheep and hen manure dropped 

 in the hills. The improved eight-rowed Demond corn, a pre- 

 mium string from West Springfield, was the seed used ; 

 planting by hand in rows three feet apart each way. The 

 piece was cultivated both ways and hoed the last week in 

 June. The second hoeing was done entirely with a horse- 

 hoe. I cut and shocked the corn the first week in September ; 

 it was husked in October for five cents a bushel by contract, 

 492 bushels of ears. On the first of December, two bushels 

 of ears yielded 70^ pounds of shelled corn, the cobs of the 

 same weighing 14| pounds. At that rate, the yield would 

 be 57^ bushels per acre. 



On half an acre of this field, and near the middle, about 

 four-fifths of the formula of the Stockbridge fertilizer, for 

 twenty-five bushels above the average yield, was applied, at 

 an estimated cost of $11.20. This half-acre produced 721 

 bushels of ears, or at the rate of 85^ bushels per acre. In 

 other words, about 13| bushels of shelled corn on a half-acre, 

 above the average yield, resulted from the Stockbridge fer- 

 tilizer. How much the drought lessened the effect we cannot 

 say. My statement is as follows : — 



Cr. 



290 bushels of corn, at 75 cents, $217 50 



Corn-fodder, 60 00 



Total, $.77 5U 



