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the summer previous. The expense of drawing out manure, 

 harrowing, furrowing, and planting, was eight dollars. The 

 corn was planted the 29th of May; the 21st of June I culti- 

 vated twice in a row, and had two men commence hoeing ; they 

 went over the ground in six hours. July 1, hoed the corn, 

 and the third hoeing was done the 4th of August. The cost of 

 the work, after planting, was nine dollars and fifty cents. The 

 ten loads of compost were ox-cart loads, probably three cords, 

 making in all ten cords. This I could have sold for thirty 

 dollars. 



Expenses : — 



Manure, $30 00 



Labor in breaking up one and one-eighth acre, 17 50 



$47 50 



Quantity of corn raised, one hundred and one bushels per 

 acre. 



Statement of Alonzo P. Benson. 



The acre of corn that I enter was planted on sward land, 

 on which last year I cut ten hundred pounds of hay. The qual- 

 ity was inferior, somewhat mixed with meadow. I ploughed on 

 the 15th of May eight inches deep; the soil was black loam, 

 with hard, stiff subsoil. I carted on forty loads of manure, 

 making about eight cords in bulk of manure, which was made 

 from two cows and one horse in a year. It was mixed with 

 sand in about equal parts, which came from under my barn 

 floor in making a cellar under the floorway. The sand was 

 good plastering sand. I spread the forty loads above named 

 on the furrows, then ploughed it in four inches deep, then went 

 over it with a bush ; furrowed about three feet, three inches 

 apart; the hills were two feet apart; put in four kernels of 

 corn to the hill, and a shovelful of the same kind of sand that 

 two cows were yarded up on nights for two Bummers, the solid 

 being taken off every morning. 



Hoed the corn twice, ploughing between the rows onco in a 

 row the first hoeing, and with cultivator the second time. 



