104 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Dr. 



Fitting ground and planting, . . . . . . . $17 50 



Hoeing and cultivating, 25 00 



Harvesting, 15 00 



Husking, 24 60 



Manure, 112 00 



Total $194 10 



Balance, §83 40 



This corn cost, therefore, 471 cents per bushel. 



HAMPDEN EAST. 



Statement of Horace Wattis, Jr., of Holland. 



My field of corn contains one acre of land. In 1875, it 

 was sward laud; ploughed and planted with potatoes, with 

 fifteen loads of barn-yard manure, spread and ploughed under 

 seven inches deep, and with a small handful of plaster in each 

 hill. In 1876, it was ploughed once eight inches deep; 

 fifteen loads of compost manure ploughed in, and fifteen loads 

 put in the hill. It was planted the 27th of May, rows three 

 and a half by three feet apart ; hoed three times. 



Cost of manure (30 loads, 



Ploughing, 



Harrowing, 



Furrowing, 



Seed-corn, 



Planting, 



Hoeing three times 



Harvesting, 



Interest on land, 



Total cost, 



), one-half to benefit the corn crop), 



$57 15 



I have harvested my corn, and find that it yields 8611 

 bushels per acre, 72 pounds to the bushel. The whole crop 

 was weighed. 



Worth of corn per acre, 86|i bushels, at $1 per bushel, . . $86 31 

 Corn-fodder, . 20 00 



Total, $106 31 



Cost, 57 15 



Balance in favor of corn, $49 16 



