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twenty-three hills in rows one way, with corn called the 

 Tuscan white, putting a small handful of plaster and ashes 

 in each hill. I hoed it hut twice — the first time about the 

 middle of June, the second about the first of July. The 

 expense of cultivation is as follows, calling labor one dollar 

 per day : 



Plowing three times, $7 00 



Harrowing and furrowing, 1 00 



Twenty loads of manure, 20 00 



Carting and spreading the same, 3 00 



Two hundred pounds guano, 6 00 



Plaster and ashes, • 4 00 



Hoeing and plowing twice, 6 00 



$47 00 



Benjamin Wyman's Statement. 

 The acre of land on which I raised my crop of Indian corn 

 which I entered for premium the present year, is a gravelly 

 soil, and was planted last year partly with corn, and partly 

 with potatoes. It was manured by about twenty-five loads 

 to the acre. The present year I spread thirty-five loads of 

 winter manure, and dropped fifteen loads of compost manure 

 in the hill to the acre, twenty-five bushels to the cart load. 

 I plowed the land twice, and planted it on the 23d and 24th 

 days of May. It was hoed but twice. The expense of cul- 

 tivating the acre is as follows: 



Fifty loads manure, $50 00 



Carting and spreading the same, 10 00 



Plowing twice, man and oxen, 4 00 



Harrowing and furrowing, 1 00 



Two days planting, 2 00 



Hoeing and plowing twice, 6 00 



|73 00 

 Deduct two-thirds for manure not exhausted, 33 66 



$89 34 



