The following is a statement of the account with the crop : 

 1894. 



Sept. To two bushels of rye, sowing and harrowing, $2 50 



1895. 



May 24. Plowing $2, harrowing 75 cents, 2 75 



" 27. Marking 50 cents, seed 50 cents, planting$l , 2 00 



" 29. Bradleys XL 1000 pounds, $16, applying 75 cents, 16 75 



" 30. Harrowing, 37 



June 10. Thinning, 2 00 



15. Cultivating, 1 00 



•• 18. Hoeing, 2 00 



July 16. Bradleys XL 500 pounds, 8 00 



Applying fertilizer. 75 



Clover and grass seed $1.70, sowing $1, 2 70 



Cultivating, 1 00 



Sept. 16. Cutting, binding and stocking, 6 00 



Husking 279 baskets at 3 cents, 8 37 



Rent of land, (assessed value 40 cents per acre,) 2 40 



Value of crop, $96 00 



By a slightly different standard, as ascertained by the committee of 

 the Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Agricultujal society, the cost of 

 the crop was $57.96 and the value of the crop, $94.43. Of course 

 the price of the grass seed and sowing are in no way chargeable to the 

 corn crop : but 1 have given them as essential to the full understanding 

 of the rotation. There is now a good stand of clover and grass, and a 

 promise of two tons to the acre next year, and a ton to the acre the two 

 following years ; and the land will be in much better condition, either to 

 top dress or to break up, than it was in 1893. 



The acre of corn marked No. 2 was raised " on shares " for W. S. 

 Westcott of Amherst. The agreement was that he should furnish land 

 and fertilizer and I should furnish seed and laborand that we should divide 

 the crop equally. The crop of 1893 was tobacco. It was manured with 

 $50 worth of cotton seed meal, sulphate of potash and Bradleys XL and 



