INDIAN CORN. 



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Income : — 



89 bushels and 35 pounds of corn, at 90 cents 

 per bushel, ...... 



Profit, 



$54 50 



80 53 



$2G 03 



I have not made any account of harvesting, as I think the 

 fodder will amply pay for the same. I have not given the corn 

 crop credit for one-half the manure not exhausted, as many do, 

 for it is a great tax on any other crop to find this other half, 

 after raising a hundred bushels of corn per acre. 



Statement of Orsamus Littlejohn. 



The land on which my acre of corn grew this year is a 

 sandy loam ; has been in grass three or four years past, with 

 rather light crops. Owing to the backward spring, and to the 

 distance of the field from the barn, and the greenness of the 

 manure, it was carted on before the ground was ploughed, 

 which is not my usual practice. 



May 17, ploughed with two horses, about seven inches deep. 

 May 22, planted four or five kernels in the hill; hills three feet 

 three inches apart each way. The corn did not grow so well 

 as it should at first. The seed is a mixture of the Plymouth 

 County white corn with a yellow that resembles the white in 

 every form except its hard core, which the white lacks. The 

 object in mixing is to get a good core to the white corn. The 

 seed was selected at harvest from small stalks with large ears. 

 Twelve of these ears and buts (the top stalks being cut) 

 weighed twelve pounds fourteen ounces. The ears without 

 the buts weighed ten pounds ten ounces. The crop has been 



