54 



Cultivating and hoeing twice, 



Cutting and curing stalks, 



Harvesting, . . . . . . 



Taxes and interest on land, 



Ashes from burnt brush and roots estimated at 



Cr. 



83 bushels and 37 pounds corn at $1, 

 4900 pounds top stalks at $15 per ton, 

 6000 pounds butts and husks at $7,50, 



Deduct 



7.25 

 3.75 

 6.00 

 3.25 

 10.00 



$79.75 



$83.66 

 36.75 

 22.50 



$142.91 



79.75 



Profit, 63.16 



Or at the rate of $66.31 per acre, without adding any thing for * 

 the manure left in the ground. 



Respectfully yours, 



John Sias. 

 3Iilton, Nov. 7, 1860. 



STATEMENT OF B. N. SAWIN. 



CoKN". My experiment in raising Indian corn was made on one 

 and a half acres of land, the soil consisting of a sandy loam, which 

 had been improved as a mowing field for eight years, without any 

 manure or dressing, producing not more than 1000 pounds of hay 

 per acre. In November last I ploughed with a Michigan plough 

 eight inches deep. The eighteenth of May I harrowed with cul- 

 tivator harrow, and furrowed with a plough, making the hills two 

 feet ten inches apart each way. I took six cords of unfermented 

 manure from the barn cellar, applied it all in the hill, and com- 

 menced planting. The corn was an eight-rowed variety of yel- 

 low, and has been raised in this vicinity for more than forty-seven 

 years. I used one of C. H. Sawin's corn-droppers, putting four 

 or five kernels in a hill ; a cultivator was used between the rows, 

 and hoed once lightly, leaving the surface level. The top stalks 

 were cut Sept. 11th and 14th. The corn was harvested October 

 18th to 25th. The Committee selected two rods in different parts 

 of the field, which they considered a fair average of the field, 

 which yielded 47 pounds of shelled corn ; and alloviing 56 pounds 

 to the bushel, gave 100 5-7 bushels, or 67 1-7 bushels per acre. 



The expense of the crop was as follows, viz. : 



