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first hoeing, one man six hours ; cultivating, two and one-half hours ; 

 second hoeing, Julj^ 9th, one man ten hours ; cultivating three and 

 one-half hours. No other labor was expended on this piece of corn 

 till cutting in September, and as I frequently let out corn to cut and 

 husk for the fodder, I made no further account of labor. Care was 

 taken to have the stooks of uniform size, each to contain eight bun- 

 dles. The piece was measured b}- a survej'or before and after cutting 

 and setting up, and contained 110 stooks. In October ten of these 

 stooks were taken in different parts of the field to get a fair average, 

 and the product kept separate when husked and spread in a chamber 

 to dry. The ten stooks yielded nearly fourteen baskets of corn, which, 

 shelled November 20th, j-ielded just seven bushels by measure and the 

 same by weight, calling 56 pounds a bushel. This result multiplied 

 by eleven gives 77 bushels of shelled corn to the acre. 



The estimated cost of labor up to harvesting is as follows : — 



Dr. 



Total for labor, $14 04 



Value of manure, $18 ; calling one-half 

 left in the land, we charge the crop 9 00 



$23 04 

 Cr. 

 Value of 77 bushels of corn at 65 cents, $50 05 



Profit, $27 01 



Now we deduct six dollars for interest and one dollar and forty cents 

 for taxes and we still have a profit of $19.61. 



George L. Cooley. 

 Sunderland, Nov. 20, 1880. 



