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other manure. Nearly one-fourth of the crop was seriously in- 

 jured by the drought, and did not fully mature. The yield was 

 eighteen hundred I'lounds of most beautiful brush, and one hun- 

 dred and forty bushels of heavy well ripened seeds. The cost of 

 cultivating the crop, and other expenses were as follows : 



Intere.-jt on the land at $273,00 per acre and taxes, $38,00 



Phosphate, 16,00 



Plowing and Harrowing, 8,00 



Planting, ' 5,00 



.Hoeing and Cultivating, 25,00 



Harvesting, . 10,10 



Scraping brush and cleaning seed, 13,00 



Total cost of crop, ' $115,00 



The credit is as follows : 



Eighteen hundred pounds of broom corn at one 



shilling per Ik, $300,00 



One hundred and forty bushels of broom-seed at 



50 cents per bushels, 70,00 



Total receipts from crop $370,00' 



Deduct its cost, 115,00 



Profit, $io5,00 



The large profit of $127 per acre was not so much in .con- 

 sequence of an extraordinary large crop 900 lbs. per acre, as of 

 the small cost of the fertilizer applied to the land, and the high 

 Iprice at which the brush was sold. 



LEVI STOCKBRIDGE. 



