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Sept. 13th the corn was cut and bound with string, also stooked, 

 eight bundles to a stook. The husking was done in the field and 

 carted to Ihe barn, commencing Oct. 20, the corn being quite dry and 

 stover well cured. The crop was examined by your committee Sept. 

 12th and the manner of obtaining the yield described. In husking 

 the corn from a certain number of sLooks was kept separate. Nov. 

 iOth it was shelled and weighed, with the following results : 



Corn, 189 lbs. ; cobs, 35^ lbs. ; fodder, 234 lbs. 



Yield of corn per acre, 6342 or 113^ bushels. 



Yield of stover per acre, 7395 or 3^'^^ tons. 

 Corn at 70c. per bushel. 

 Fodder at $6.00 per ton, 



Coat of cultivating with manure, 



Balance in favor of crop, 56 47 



SECOND PREMIUM. 



Acre of corn raised by L. W. West, Hadley. 



Corn grew on this acre last year. This year fertilized with fifteen 

 loads of manure and 300 lbs. Chittenden's grain grower, hoed twice, 

 level culture, seeded to grass the first of August. One rod husked 

 October 20th, weighed 50 lbs., this at seventy pounds to the bushel 

 gives 114f bushels to the acre. 



The account of crops is as follows : 



Dr. 



To 15 loads manure, at $1.50 per load, one third 



charged to crop, $7 50 



" 300 lbs. Chittenden's grain grower, 6 00 



" Labor of all kinds, 20 00 



" Seed, 40 



-$33 90 



Credit by 114^ bushels corn, at 50c, $57 14 



" 4 tons stover, at $5.00, 20 00 



— ^ $77 14 



Net profit, 43 24 



