INDIAN CORN. 1G1 



Amount brought forward, $186 04 

 Subtract the cost, . . 104 29 



Leaves as profit, . . $82 65, or $47 24 to the acre. 



Dover, October, 21, 1854. 



j Mr. Sawin afterwards modified his statement by saying:, 

 " Since my statement was made I have finished husking;, and 

 find by actual measurement two hundred and thirty-two baskets 

 of sound corn. I have shelled several baskets, and found them 

 to yield twenty quarts each of shelled corn — which result gives 

 one hundred and forty-five bushels on the one acre and three- 

 fourths." 



We have examined Mr. Sawin's farm-account books, not only 

 in reference to this crop, but to all his operations, and have the 

 satisfaction of saying that he has the means of knowing exactly 

 what he expends upon his farm and what he receives from it. 

 His practice in this is worthy of imitation by every farmer in 

 the county.] 



Statement of William Pierce. 



The acre of corn entered by me for premium was in corn last 

 year. The soil is a light loam. It was ploughed, about the 

 first of May, ten inches deep. On the 20th I spread six cart- 

 loads of green manure, from twenty-five to thirty bushels to 

 the load, and ploughed it in six inches deep, furrowing one way 

 with the plough. The rows were three feet apart. Put one 

 shovelful of compost manure in the hill, and planted the corn two 

 and one-half to three feet apart in the rows, four or five ker- 

 nels to the hill. Ploughed twice between the rows, and hoed 

 twice. Harvested about the middle of October. One rod 

 was selected by the committee which was considered as a fair 

 sample of the acre. This rod yielded 26 | pounds of shelled 

 corn. 



Expense of cultivation : — 



Interest on land, at $80, $4 80 



Ploughing, 3 00 



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