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My experience has been thtit about twenty bushels per man 

 in ten hours, was the amount huskocl. 



I should state that I used the Ross machine, wdiich sowed 

 my corn in drills, and dropped the fertilizer immediately 

 after the kernels, in such a manner that they did not fall in 

 contact with each other, and the former has in no way 

 seemed to have been injured by the latter. The Ross Hiller 

 has also done me good service. By these machines I have 

 been able to cultivate more land with my labor than I other- 

 wise could. 



Next year I intend to raise corn on a similar kind of land, 

 •with six bags of fertilizer to the acre, ^nd shall hope to tell 

 the result next year. 



I report as follows : — 3 acres, 31,424 feet of Indian Corn, 

 on land which was run out in the previous year, excepting 

 21,329 feet where potatoes were raised with manure in 1877, 

 and which was, in 1878, only enriched with fertilizer in drill ; 

 the remaining 3 acres, 10,095 feet was manured wii;h stable 

 manure at the rate of six cords to one acre, with the same 

 fertilizer in drill. I have charged my labor at $1.50 per day 

 of 10 hours, and each horse at 75 cents per day. Stable 

 manure at $10 per cord, spread on the field. The manure 

 was harrowed in by Randall wheel harrow. The time is 

 given below in hours and minutes. 



Men. Horses, 



h. m. h. m. 



Ploughing in A utuniu of 1S77 41 50 43 40 § 6 55 



22 1-2 cords stable manure 225 00 



Harrowing (Randall) 19rh April, lapping^one-half 5 34 11 8 167 



Harrowing (straight tools), 17tli May '• " 5 34 11 8 167 



Sowing seed and ff-rtilizi-r at same time (Ross Machine) 18 May 17 24 8 42 3 26 



850 pounds Bowker's Hill and Drill Phosphate 21 25 



Seed 1 20 



Sowing after Crows. 1st June 6 40 100 



2 cultivatinjrs with " Scarifier" 20 27 10 13 4 86 



1 hilling (Ross iNIachine), 6tli July ,. ]3 20 6 40 2 50 



Harvesting, 3 loads tops, cut 20th S -pt 105 16 16 95 



Harvesting, 7 loads corn and butts, 1 1th Oct 57 32 10 95 



Husking 441 bushels, at 6 cents per bushel 26 46 



Interest and taxes 12 02 



$335 34 

 5.175 pounds tops 

 16,600 " butts. 



16,776 pounds stover at $6 per ton , $50 33 



9 3-4 cords stable manure unused , 97 50—5147 83 



441 bushels corn on cob §187 51 



Equal to 1 bushel corn costing 42 1-2 cents. 



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