INDIAN CORN. 



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Expenses : — 



The expense of ploughing first time, 



Spreading the manure and second plougl 



Furrowing and bushing, 



Carting sand and dropping it in hil 



Drawing forty loads, 



Dropping and covering the corn, 



First hoeing, 



Second "... 



Interest on land, . 



Half a bushel of seed corn, 



Eight cords of manure, 



mg, 



$3 00 



$45 25 



I have charged the labor at ten cents per hour as near as I 

 could. 



The kind of corn planted was the smutty white and yellow, 

 mixed. It has been planted in this way for two years before 

 this. I selected the ears in the field before harvesting. Quan- 

 tity raised, ninety-three bushels per acre. 



Statement of George W. Wood. 



The acre of land entered by me for premium for Indian corn 

 is a clayey loam. It has been in English grass since 1847; 

 cut in 1853 about three-fourths of a ton of hay. In the winter 

 of 1854 I carted from the manure heap thrown from the barn, 

 where I fed out my corn fodder and fresh hay, the buts and 

 the waste part of the hay, all thrown out together, amounting 

 to twenty loads of manure, and dropped it in loads. The 

 18th of May I spread the manure and ploughed in. I also 

 spread about half a ton of fresh hay on a part of the acre. 

 Where I spread the hay the corn did not suffer so much as the 

 other part of the piece. After ploughing, harrowed and culti- 

 vated until the soil was very fine, and furrowed a little more than 

 three feet apart, dropping twenty loads of fine compost manure 

 in the hill ; put the hills two feet apart ; the corn was planted 

 on the 19th and 20th of May. Soon after the corn was up I 

 went through with the cultivator, and in the course of the 



