19 



Cost of growing 



i manure to crop $22.00 



Balance for crop $44.65 



(Acre No. 2.) 

 This acre of corn was raised on rather heavy loam, plowed in the 

 fall of 1892, fertilized and cultivated the same as acre No. 1. 



Your selected rod husked Oct. 13th weighed 38 lbs. Had no soft 

 corn. 



86.85 bushels per acre at .55 $47.77 



2i tons stover at $6. 13.50 



$61.27 



Cost of growing 



A manure to crop 23.00 



Balance in favor of crop $38.27 



L. W. West. 



A report on one acre of corn produced by the subscriber. 



The acre of corn which I entered for premium was grown on sandy 

 loam, soil moderately heavy. It has produced a crop of corn once 

 in four years for the last fifty years in a system of rotation. Some 

 of the time it has been considerably reduced in fertility but of late it 

 has fared better, being supplied with barnyard manure and ashes for 

 the corn crop. It was sown with I'ye and seeded to grass in the 

 rotation and produced two good crops of hay ; consequently there 

 was a very good turf. There was applied five cords of coarse barn- 

 yard manure plowed in with the turf in April last. About the 20th 

 of May it was harrowed and marked three feet and a half between 

 the rows. 600 lbs of Bradley's fertilizer was applied to the rows. 

 The planting was done with a Billings corn planter which drops the 

 hills four feet apart. The corn came up well and was cultivated and 

 hoed twice, and the weeds were cut in August. The acre produced 

 on the average rod selected by your committee 40 lbs. of ears, husked 

 the 20th of October. This would make 6,400 lbs. per acre, divided 

 by 70 makes 9 If bushels per acre. The corn was a twelve rowed 

 variety, very close deep kernels, and was found by former trials, to 

 shrink only about 12 to 15 per cent, while some other varieties shrink 

 nearly 25 to 30 per cent. The cost and profit on the crop appears as 

 follows : 



