180 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



FRANKLIN. 



Statement of Elihu Smith. 



The piece of broom corn which I enter for premium, con- 

 taining one acre and nine rods, is situated in the north meadow 

 of Sunderland, and is a part of five acres which I cultivated in 

 the same manner, as follows : — 



The previous fall and winter I drew to the piece twenty 

 cords of muck, which I mixed with five and one-half cords of 

 sheep manure. In April the whole was turned over and mixed, 

 and eighteen bushels of ashes added. About the first of May 

 it was turned the second time,' and on the 15th of May was 

 applied to the land by harrowing in. The piece was planted 

 with Woodward's corn planter, and one hundred pounds of 

 super-phosphate of lime put in the hill. The land was culti- 

 vated and hoed four times, and yielded, by estimation, eight 

 hundred pounds to the acre. Broom corn had been grown on 

 the land the two previous years. 



The crop raised on the acre and one-eighteenth, which I enter, 

 yielded of brush one thousand and twenty-five pounds, and of 

 seed sixty-seven bushels, weighing forty pounds per bushel. 



Value of crop : — 



1,025 pounds of brush, at 10 cents, . 

 67 bushels of seed, at 40 cents, 



Expenses : — 



Ploughing, harrowing, and planting, . 

 Manure, ....... 



Hoeing, 



Harvesting, scraping and cleaning the seed, 

 Interest on the land, ..... 



38 50 



Net profit, s'.tO 80 



