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system .of four years rotation, inaiuuing the corn with baruyard 

 manure and ashes sufficient to produce four succeeding crops. 



The laud was plowed in April and sixteen horse-cart loads of 

 coarse manure turned in with turf. It was fitted and planted the 

 middle of May with a ton of Canada ashes strewed in the rows. The 

 seed corn was an eight-rowed variety of yellow flint corn. It was 

 tarred and dried and then submerged in a solution of corrosive sub- 

 limate, the same used for potatoes. 



The object was to prevent wire-worms from attacking the kernel 

 before germinating, a trouble I have often had on land adjoining 

 with like treatment of manure. The treatment of the seed with poi- 

 son was a success so far as attacking the kernel was concerned, but 

 the worms were there and attacked the sprouts when they had started 

 from the kernel in some places but not to injure the stand of corn 

 very much. 



If some of our learned professors would study out and publish 

 some sure remedy to prevent wire worms from injuring our seed 

 planted, both corn and potatoes, they would supply a great want in 

 this vicinity. 



The estimated yield per acre, 6400 lbs. of ears at 70 lbs. per bushel 

 would be 9 If bushels. 



Cash value, 10 per cent, shrunk, including fodder, $71.50 

 Cost of poducing, including one-half for fertilizer, 40.50 



Profit on one acre, $31.00 



James Comins. 



66| lbs. of ears of corn to two rods of land. 



The crop of 1892 aud 1893 was gross, no manure being used. The 

 soil is a sandy loam. The land was plowed in the fall of 1893 seven 

 inches deep. In the spring of 1894 the land was harrowed four 

 times in a place with a wheel harrow, twice in a place with a shears 

 harrow, then smoothed aud marked both ways 3 ft. 10 in. The cost 

 of plowing was $5. The cost of harrowing and other preparation 

 for seed would be $8. There was 65 bushels of ashes used to the 

 acre sown broadcast, no manure. It was planted :d)out the 10th of 

 May by hand. I used the dent corn and planted one peck to the 

 acre. The value of the ashes left upon the land would be about 

 half. The cost of the seed was 75 cents a bushel. The cost of tlie 



