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At 90 cents per bushel, amounts to $443 70 



There were 20 tons of stover, worth $8 per ton, .... 16000 



Making the total product, $603 70 



Expenses. 



Ploughing and harrowing, $40 00 



Fertilizers and application, 210 00 



Cost of seed and planting, 8 00 



Cultivating and hoeing, etc., 30 00 



Cutting up and shocking, 25 00 



Harvesting and storing, 50 00 



Total, $363 00 



Profits of crop, less the interest on investment, .... 240 70 



Statement of Henry M. Porter of Halifax. 



The acre on which my corn grew is a dark, sandy loam, 

 and was in grass without dressing in 1874. In the spring of 

 1875, I spread forty loads of manure from my barn cellar, 

 and planted it to corn. Last May, thirty loads of manure, 

 of thirty bushels each, were spread on and ploughed in seven 

 inches deep. It was then harrowed once and furrowed one 

 way, and ten loads of manure put in the hills, which were 

 two and one-half feet apart. On the 20th of May, it was 

 planted with smutty white corn, using about twelve quarts, 

 and putting four kernels in the hill. It was cultivated twice 

 with a horse-hoe, and hoed twice by hand. October 12, the 

 supervisor selected and harvested two rods, the weight of 

 which was 93^ pounds, being at the rate of 88 bushels to the 

 acre. I estimate that there were two tons of top-stalks and 

 two and one-half tons of butts. 



Expenses. 



Ploughing, etc., $6 00 



Manure, 40 00 



Seed and planting, 4 00 



Cultivation 10 00 



Harvesting, 14 00 



Total, . .' $74 00 



