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vator failed to cover sufficiently. This system left the crop 

 clean of weeds, and reduced the cost of cultivation very ma- 

 terially, which cost of cultivation and harvesting in the barn 

 I make $19.50 for the whole acre. The product of lot No. 1 

 of sound ears of corn was 2597 lbs., of which it took 74 lbs. 

 to make 56 lbs. of shelled corn, making 35 1-10 bushels of 

 shelled corn, and 3070 lbs. of stover, at $8 per ton, would 

 be worth $12.28, which, being deducted from the cost of 

 production, — fertilizer, $16.48 half of cultivation, $9.75= 

 $26.23, — would give the cost of 35 1-10 bushels corn $13.95, 

 which is .39 per bushel. The product of lot No. 2 was 2085 

 lbs. of ears =i to 28 1-10 bushels shelled corn, and 2360 lbs. 

 of stover, valued at $9.44, which deducted from cost of pro- 

 duction, — fertilizer $17.25 -[-cultivation $9.75 =$27. 00 — leav- 

 ing $17.56 cost of 28 1-9 bushels, or 62 1-2 cents per bushel. 

 Thus showing that, all other things being equal in this exper- 

 iment, it cost 39 cents to grow one bushel of 56 lbs. of shell- 

 ed corn with Darling's Animal Fertilizer, and 62 1-2 cents 

 with Stockbridge's Fertilizer. 



In connection with the foregoing, I also submit the follow- 

 ing experiment, not carried out with so much exactness, but 

 showing important results : — 



With one half acre of good strong land, that had been well 

 manured for two years, and upon which onions were sown 

 last' year, but owing to an unfavorable season the crop was a 

 failure. Upon four-sixths of this lot I spread, after plough- 

 ing, four bags of Stockbridge's Onion Fertilizer, prepared by 

 W. H. Bowker & Co., of whom I purchased it for $6 per 

 bag, costing at the rate of $72 per acre, and on the rest of 

 the lot I applied good compost manure, such as I thought 

 would be suitable for onions, at the rate of eight cords per 

 acre, costing, I judge, when applied, nine dollars per cord, 

 or $72 per acre. I called upon several disinterested gentle- 

 men to examine the crop when growing, and pass judgment 

 upon the different parts of the piece, and all agreed with me, 

 that, without measurement, the crop where the Stockbridge 



