35 



Cr. 



By 127 busheld at 60 cents, 

 Corn fodder, 



Dr. 



To Plowing, 



Carting manure. 



Harrowing, 



Planting, 



Hoeing, 



Cutting and stocking, 



Husking, 



Manure, 



Stockbridge Fertilizer, 



Net profit. 

 North Amherst, Nov. 15, 1880. 



$76 20 

 24 00 



$100 20 



35 

 36 85 

 Austin Eastman. 



CORN RAISED BY GEO. L. COOLEY, SUNDERLAND. 



Tlie land on which the corn grew was a peat or muck meadow that 

 had been drained by surface ditches, and also improved by carting on 

 to it in former years considerable loam and sand. I value the land at 

 $100 per acre. The land had been down to grass for six or eight 

 years previous, being top-dressed with barnjard manure two or three 

 times. The land was plowed partly in the fall of 1879 and the 

 remainder in the spring of 1880, with no apparent difference in the 

 crop. The depth of furrow was from four to seven inches, or about 

 six inches average depth. The piece was manured with twelve two- 

 horse loads of manure, sledded out the previous winter and left in 

 piles ; these were forked over once before using and covered with dirt 

 scraped up about the pile. No other fertilizer was used. Ma}' 17th 

 the soil was pulverized thoroughly with a wheel harrow, occupying the 

 team four hours. The field was rowed both ways with a furrowing 

 plow ; time used in furrowing, three and one-half hours for man and 

 horse. Putting out manure in the hill, one man with horse ten hours ; 

 amount used in each hill, a medium shovel full. Time used in plant- 

 ing, one man fourteen hours. Commenced hoeing June 11th; labor 



