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To the Secretary of the Hampshire Agricultural Society: — 



The two acres of corn offered for premiums were both grown on 

 shares. 



Acre No. 1 was raised for W. S. Westcott of Amherst he furnishing 

 land and fertilizer, and I furnishing seed and labor; the crop to be 

 divided equally. The land is a sandy loam, and, having been mown a 

 good many years without any manure, the grass crop was very light. 

 The following is a statement of the process and cost of producing the 

 crop of corn : 



1896. * 



May 27, Plowing $2, harrowing 75 cents, 



•^ 29, Marking 50 cents, planting $1, seed 25 cents, 

 June 1, Applying fertilizer (1000 lbs. Bradley's complete 

 corn manure) along the rows. 

 Harrowing with Acme harrow, 

 " 23, Applying 500 lbs. Bradleys C C manure broadcast, 

 Cultivating and hoeing (very little hoeing), 

 July 1 1 Applying 500 lbs. Bradley's C. C. manure broadcast. 



Cultivating and hoeing, 

 Sept. 10, Cutting, binding and stacking, 

 Oct. 20, Husking (estimated) 188 baskets ears at 13 cents, 



$21 51 



Two average rods of this corn, selected, harvested, and weighed by 

 your committee, weighed respectively 49 and 45-J- lbs. of ears. The 

 average of these two samples is 47} lbs. which would give a total yield 

 of 7560 lbs. or, allowing 80 lbs. of ears to the bushel, 94^- bushels of 

 shelled corn. 



From several careful experiments I find the yield of stover, under 

 my system of cultivation, to average one sixth more than the weight 

 of the ears ; and, on this bases, I estimate the yield of Stover, on this 

 acre, at A-^^ tons. From all the premises 1 gather the following results : 

 John C. Dillon, in account with Acre No. 1 , Cr. 

 By 47| bushels of shelled Northern corn (my half of crop) at 40 



cents per bushel, $18 90 



By 2-^^ tons of corn stover at $6 per ton, , 13 20 



$32 10 



Deduct cost of labor and seed as above, 2151 



Profit, $10 59 



In other words my 47|- bushels of corn has cost me in labor $8.31, 

 or rather less than 18 cents a bushel. 



