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tility that the crops at the above date were not remunerative. At that 

 time the land changed ownership, and the same rotation continued with 

 a more liberal use of fertilizer. About three cords of coarse barn3'ard 

 manure plowed in, and from ten to twentj- bushels of ashes, per acre 

 for corn, has so improved the soil that the crops are now model atelj' 

 paying. 



The operation of raising the crop on which this experiment was 

 tried was similar to the above. Three cords of coarse barnyard ma- 

 nure were plowed in the first week in May, the land was pulverized 

 with a Randall wheel harrow and furrowed out ; twenty bushels of un- 

 leached ashes per acre were applied in the furrow. The corn was 

 planted the twenty-fifth of May, in hills four feet apart ; the rows were 

 three and a half feet apart, each containing one hundred and thirt^'- 

 two hills and six rows in each quarter, acre. The corn was hoed three 

 times, hilling each alternate quarter acre. It was cut and put up in 

 sixteen stacks on each lot. Stacks on the level lot averaged fifty-eight 

 pounds of ears, on the hilled lot fifty-five and one-half pounds. Stover 

 on the level lot averaged forty-six and three-fourths pounds per stack, 

 and on the hilled lot forty-six pounds. Total weight of ears on level 

 lot, 928 pounds; on hilled lot, 888 pounds; making a ditference of 

 forty pounds of corn (about four per cent), and twelve pounds of 

 stover (about one and a half per cent), in favor of level culture. Cost 

 of raising is about as follows : — 



Interest and taxes on land, 

 Plowing, harrowing and planting. 

 Furrowing and applying fertilizer. 

 Hoeing and cultivating level lot. 

 Cutting and stacking level lot. 

 Husking and drawing fodder, 



Total cost of level lot, 

 " hilled lot, 



Diflference between the two, 75 



The only item of diflference was cost of cultivation, the second 

 and third hoeing on the hilled lot was done with a Ross horse hoe, which 



