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the acre. The variety was the " Longfellow," and the 

 amount of seed, ten quarts, using not less than six kernels 

 to the hill. We cultivated twice, both ways, keeping the 

 soil — which is a dark, sandy loam — perfectly loose and 

 friable. But little hand hoeing was done on the piece, as 

 we made no hill. 



In September, the top stalks were cut, and when they 

 were perfectly cured, weighed 2800 pounds. The corn 

 ripened well, and we, this day, have finished husking, and 

 have 156 baskets, averaging forty-two pounds each. Three 

 of them were weighed, and their weights were — forty-four, 

 forty, and forty-two pounds respectively. The butts and 

 husks we estimate to weigh 4000 pounds. At eighty 

 pounds per bushel (which I believe is the Society's stan- 

 dard), it would give about eighty-two bushels of shelled 

 corn per acre. 



The cost of the crop is as follows : — 



Plowing, $ 3.00 



Phosphate, 26.00 



Sowing Phosphate, 1.50 



Harrowing and marking, 2.50 



Planting, 3.00 



Cultivating, 3.50 



Hoeing and weeding, 3.50 



Cutting stalks and binding, 2.50 



Harvesting and husking, 8.00 



$53.50 

 Interest and taxes, 3.00 



156.50 



I enclose certificate of measurement of land and crop. 



As we have for tlie last dozen or fifteen years, been 

 experimenting with super-phosphate, in competition with 

 barn-yard manure, and have satisfactorily settled the ques- 

 tion — so far as we ourselves are concerned — I bring before 

 you this statement, not on account of an enormous crop, 



