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Statement of David Brown, Jr., of Marshfield.' 



Ploughed the acre of old ground which I entered for pre- 

 mium the first of May, ploughing under five cords of barn 

 manure. Harrowed with an old fashioned harrow once ; 

 marked with a horse marker three and one-half feet each way ; 

 dropped hen manure, mixed with loam, in the hill, and planted 

 with a hand planter about the tenth of the month. During 

 the season horse-hoed it three times each way, which is all the 

 cultivation it received. Estimated cost : 



Ploughing, $.t 00 



Harrowing, 75 



Planting, including marking, 1 50 



Horse hoeing, 3 00 



Manure, estimating one-third used, . . . . 10 GO 



Seed, 36 



Cost, $19 61 



Eighty-nine bushels of corn, at eighty-five cents a bushel, 

 $75.65. Allowing the fodder for labor of harvesting, profit 

 on acre, $56.04. Cost of corn per bushel, twenty-two cents. 



David Brown, Jr. 



There were two entries of corn for 1884 : C. P. Wright, 



greatest crop of corn on one acre ; average yield, one hundred 



and sixteen bushels ; awarded first premium, $8.00. David 



Brown, Jr., next greatest yield, eighty-nine and one-seventh 



bushels, second premium, $5.00. This corn was husked and 



weighed October 23, 1884. 



BAKKER SPRAGUE,) 



L. P. HATCH, V Committee. 



OSCAR WESTON, ) 



