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season it was cultivated four times and hoed twice. I went 

 through it the last of July and cut up the weeds, but did not 

 cut the stalks until the corn was nearly ripe. I cannot state 

 precisely the cost of cultivation. I ploughed the ground with 

 one yoke of oxen, about nine inches in depth. I will state the 

 expenses as near as I can : — 



Expenses : — 



$23 82 



The corn was the smutty white, or, as some call it, the 

 Whitman corn. Selected the corn at harvest time from the 

 stalks that grew two ears and nearest the ground. The cost 

 of harvesting I make no charge of, as I think the corn fodder 

 is worth as much as the labor of harvesting. Quantity raised, 

 eighty-nine bushels per acre. 



Statement of Calvin Leavitt. 



The land on which I raised my Indian corn was in grass last 

 summer, and produced about one ton per acre. On the 18th 

 of May I carted on thirty-three loads, of forty cubic feet each, 

 of first-rate stable manure, and ploughed on the 20th, about 

 eight inches deep. It was planted on the 24th and 25th with 

 the Hill, a premium corn, four kernels in a hill, twenty inches 

 apart one way, three feet four inches the other; then run a cul- 

 tivator through my corn three times, and hoed twice, the last 

 time on the 15th of July. The extreme dry weather n fleeted 

 my corn very much ; I think I am one-quarter short on that 

 account. I raised, as per measurement, eighty-nine bushels 

 and thirty-live pounds per acre. 



