56 



Getting in butts and stalks, .... 5.00 



Seed corn, ....... .50 



Interest on land, ...... 9.00 



$69.75 



Income. 



Value of corn, $94.11 



To two tons of top stalks, .... 30.00 



To t^YO tons of butts, 15.00 



$139.11 

 69.75 



Net profits, $69.36 



I have usually planted in drills, dropping my corn, a kernel in 

 a place, in a zig-zag form, on each side of the drill alternately. 

 But this year I have planted in hills two feet apart, and the rows 

 three and a half feet apart, running North and South. I plough 

 in half of my manure, and the other half I put in the drills. I 

 plough my ground twice in the Spring. On part of the ground I 

 raised corn last year, and on the other part I raised rye. I have 

 usually cut out the suckers, thinking it would benefit the corn, but 

 I find on trial, that it has but little eifect on the corn ; and the 

 suckers themselves produce good feed for cows giving milk. You 

 may be inquiring after soft, or pig corn, so called. I had only 

 eight baskets of this kind, and these consisted of short ears, and 

 broken pieces of corn which were mostly sound. 



PlIILAMON RUGGLES. 



Milton, Oct. 31, 1860. 



STATEMENTS OF A. L. SMITH. 



Oats. The field of oats entered by me for premium, contains 

 one and a half acres. Planted with corn last year, and manured 

 ■with a shovelful of compost in the hill. Soil, a moist, gravelly 

 loam. Ploughed and sowed the first week in May last, with four 

 and a half bushels of Australian oats. Before harrowing them in 

 I spread ten bushels of leached ashes on about one-fourth of the 

 piece, but did not perceive that the crop of oats Avas much bene- 

 fited by it, although I have no doubt the future crops of grass will 

 be. Owing to the press of haying, the oats were not cut until over 

 ripe, and a storm coming on soon after, many of them Avere scat- 

 tered in gathering the crop ; as many, I should think, as .were 



