BROOM CORN. 



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Statement of Kelita Hubbard. 



The piece of land on which this crop of broom corn was 

 raised contains one acre. Previous to 1853 it had been mown 

 fox several years ; it was turned over in May of that year and 

 planted with Indian corn, fifteen dollars' worth of compost 

 manure being- ploughed in, and a single handful of a mixture of 

 twelve-sixteenths ashes, three-sixteenths lime, and one-sixteenth 

 plaster dropped in the hill. The crop was good, yielding six- 

 ty-two bushels of shelled corn to the acre. The land is sandy 

 loam, with a gravelly subsoil, inclined to be wet from springs 

 above — so wet I could not plant until ^he last of May. In 1854 

 I manured it in the hill with ten cart bucks of compost manure, 

 worth six dollars, and planted the seed on the manure ; hoed 

 three times and harvested about the first of October. I have 

 scraped seven hundred pounds, and think there will be one 

 hundred more. 



Value of crop : — 



800 pounds, at 10 cents a pound, 

 70 bushels of seed, at 40 cents, . 



Expenses : — 



Ploughing and harrowing, 

 Manuring in the hill, . 

 Seed and planting, 

 Hoeing, . 



Harvesting and scraping, 

 Manure and interest on land, 



$108 00 



30 50 



Net profit, 



$77 50 



