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CORN GROWN BY TIMOTHY PUTNAM, LEVERETT. 



The corn we entered was in two pieces. The first contained one 

 acre and was planted with corn last year, producing a good crop, this 

 year it was manured with ten two-horse loads of good compost, 

 spread on and harrowed in. Planted May 15th, with a " Woodward" 

 planter in drills, and thinned to four stalks to three and one-half feet; 

 it was cultivated three times and hoed twice. It produced as near as 

 we could estimate 6027 pounds, which, reckoning 70 pounds to the 

 bushel, gives 86 bushels. The other piece contained one acre and 

 fifty rods, was turf mowed iwice last year, plowed in the spring and 

 treated the same as the other piece, produced 9163 pounds or 130 

 bushels. Considering the improvement of the land as equal to 

 interest and taxes, the account for the two acres and fifty rods is 

 viz : — 



Dr. 



Plowing and harrowing, • $ 8 00 



8 1-2 cords manure, and carting, 56 00 



Hoeing and cultivating, 8 00 



Harvesting and husking, 16 35 



-$88 35 



Cr. 

 216 bushels of corn at 70 cents, $151 20 



Fodder, 6 1-2 tons at $6.00, 39 00 



-$190 20 



Balance in favor of the crop $101.85, or the corn reckoned at cost 

 would be 27 cents per bushel. 



Leverett, Nov. 20, 1880. Timothy Putnam. 



CORN RAISED BY AUSTIN EASTMAN, NORTH AMHERST. 



The land on which the corn grew was a stiflT, loamy, gravelly soil ; 

 it measured three hundred rods and had been mowed several years 

 without top-dressing. Manure was harrowed in and the fertilizer put 

 in the hill. Yield 68 bushels per acre : — 



