71 



7650 lbs. Estimating 85 lbs. of corn on the cob to make a 

 bushel of shelled corn, leaves 90 bushels per acre. 



90 bushels of corn, at 70 cents per bushel, IG3.00 

 Value of stover, 20.00 



$83.00 

 Deduct expense, 52.00 



$81.00 



The above statement I believe to be correct. 



• ' James P. King. 



STATEMENT OF FRANCIS H. APPLETON. 



I have this season used some of the Stockbridge Fertilizer 

 for corn, which is manufactured by W. H. Bowker & Co., 

 Boston, and I believe that the facts in the case, which I give 

 herewith, will not only be interesting but useful to farmers 

 in the county. I trust that you can publish them under some 

 headino; in the Transactions for 1877. 



I have carefully surveyed the land, and computed, as accu- 

 rately as possible, the labor, etc., employed, and also with 

 equal care the results. I have also, for the sake of compari- 

 son, studied in a similar way a piece of land sown to corn 

 and manured with stable manure. 



The land was all manured the season of 1876 with stable 

 manure, (about six cords to the acre,) for potatoes, on an 

 inverted grass sod. This year's corn crop got an earlier and 

 better start on the fertilizer piece than on the stable manure 

 piece, both pieces being sown at the same time. 



The question arises, as to how much each crop depended 

 upon the manure left by the potatoes of 1876. Also how 

 much succeeding crops will benefit by the manure left in the 

 land from the stable manure applied this season, and whether 

 any of the fertilizer remains in the land for future use. 



The larger crop on the manured piece cost more to harvest, 

 as is shown by the figures. In my cost the manure has to be 

 hauled seven miles. Every farmer can calculate the compar- 



