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I had two fields of corn this year ; one consisting of 1 acre, 

 4440 feet, where corn was grown in 1878, with fertilizer alone, 

 and which was then fully reported and published by the Socie- 

 ty ; last season the field also included a strip on the east side, 

 which was this year used for garden vegetables ; consequently, 

 what was then about 1 1-4 acres is now reduced in size as 

 above stated. 



Last Autumn the piece was harrowed across the rows to level 

 them before it was then plowed ; this Spring, 4| bags of 

 Stockbridge Corn Fertilizer were sown broadcast and worked 

 in with Randall Harrow ; immediately after this, on May 16th, 

 the seed and 2| bags of same fertilizer were sown at same 

 time by the Ross Horse Planter. The seed was of the eight- 

 rowed variety. 



Total cost of raising crop, including interest and 

 taxes, seed, labor in planting, tending and 

 harvesting, ...... $25 96 



Cost of 7 Bags Fertilizer, .... 31 50 



$57 46' 



I have harvested 77 1 bushels of first quality and 10 bushels 

 of second quality, corn-on-cob ; also 1 ton 765 pounds of tops, 

 and 2 tons 1522 pounds of butts and husks, making 4 tons 287 

 pounds of stover. This yield of corn is at the rate of about 

 half of, and the stover nearly the same as, last year's crop. 



If corn stover, well dried, is worth $6 00 a ton, then my 

 corn-on-cob from this field cost me 37 2-10 cents a bushel ; or, 

 nhelled corn about 74 4-10 cents a bushel. 



The other field contained 2 acres 2668 feet. It had been in 

 grass for a number of years, and when the Committee on Farms 

 made me a visit in 1872, I had a crop of potatoes on a part of 

 it, a portion of which had been fertilized by a mixture recom- 

 mended by Dr. J. R. Nichols, while the remainder were grown 

 on stable manure. As it was in very poor condition I plowed 

 it last Autumn ; this Spring 9 bags Stockbridge Corn Fertilizer 



