72 



ative cost of fertilizer and stable manure, which must vary 

 accordins: to circumstances. I have reduced the results to an 

 acreage, and give them below : — 



Total cost of raising crop, including interest and tax- 

 es, labor in planting, tending and harvesting, per 

 acre, not including cost of fertilizer, $36 08 



Cost of fertilizer, (Stockbridge Manure,) 23 03— $59 11 



2613.19 lbs. tops, 



5536.30 lbs. butts. 



8149.49 lbs. stover, at $8, • 32 30 



112 1-2 bushels corn on cob, per acre, $26 81 



Total cost of raising crop, including interest and 

 taxes, labor in planting, tending and harvesting, 

 per acre, not including cost of stable manure, $38 33 



Cost of six cords stable manure, delivered on farm, 66 00 — $104 33 



2655.67 lbs. tops, 



5669.62 lbs. butts, 



8325.29 lbs. stover, at $8 per ton, 32 66 



134 3-4 bushels of corn on cob, per acre, $71 67 



The corn was equally good and of excellent quality in each 



case. 



Yours very respectfully, 



Feancis H. Appleton. 



GRAIN CROPS. 



The Committee on Grain Crops were notified to view the 

 corn crop of George L. Flook, West Newbury, and accord- 

 ingly, on the fifteenth day of October, three members of your 

 Committee met at Mr. Flook's farm, on old "Craneneck 

 Hill," proceeded at once to the duty assigned them, and 

 submit the following report, asking that the careful consider- 

 ation of all interested in the cultivation of corn be given to 



