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The following is an account of seed, labor, and fertilizer on the 

 five acres, and estimated value of the crop : 



Corn Crop on P^ive Acres of Land, 



In Account with 



W. S. Westcott and J. C. Dillon. 

 18S3. 

 May 25 to 29. To ploughing, man and team, 251 hours, 



at $3.50 per day, $8 92 



"• 30. To harrowing and crop harrowing 15 hours, 5 25 



June 1. To marking rows 3 ft. apart, both ways, 8 hours, 2 80 



" 4. To seed corn, (early Northern), 5 peeks, 1 25 



Planting by hand planter, 1 50 



" 5. Fertilizer, 90 00 



" 6. Sowing and covering with smoother, 4 50 



Cultivating four times, 12 00 



Hoeing twice, 15 00 



Cutting, binding and stooking, 9 00 



$150 22 

 Husking 228 baskets at 5 cts., 11 40 



Total cost of crop, $161 62 



Cr. 



By 6840 lbs. mixed corn on the ear, worth, for 



home use, 75 cts. per 100 lbs., $51 30 



By 17005 lbs. cornf odder, at $4 per ton in the field, 34 00 



Total value of crop, $85 30 



Loss on crop, $76 32 



The total yield was 304 stooks of which an average sixteen weighed 

 1255 lbs., and yielded 12 baskets averaging 30 lbs. of mixed corn. 

 Some of this was handsome seed corn, while more than half of it 

 was too soft to be cribbed and had to be spread on the attic floor. From 

 these data I have estimated the crop as above. This is not a very 

 encouraging result, but the situation is not without its consolations. 

 And first, most of the work was done by myself at odd times, and 



