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PIECE No. 4. ONE ACRE. Nearly same soil as No. 3. 

 125 baskets, 35 lbs. each, estimated value 25c. $31 25 



■2^ tous of stalks at $7.00, 17 50 



48 75 

 Cost of cultivation same as No. 1 less $4.00, 43 00 



$5 75 

 Eertilizer, ashes, value same as No. 1. 

 If I deduct the value of the stalks from the cost of raising the whole 

 I find the following result of cost per bushel, allowing 2 baskets 

 for a bushel. 



BASKETS. CTS. 



No. 1 cost $47.00, value stalks $28.00—170 equals 22^. . 

 No. 2 " 47.00, '' " 26.25—160 '' 25. 

 No. 3 '^ 44.00, '' " 19.25—140 - 35. 

 No. 4 " 43.00, '' " 17.50—125 •' 41. 

 liy this analysis and estimate it will be seen that the cost per bush- 

 el of No. 4, 125 baskets or 62^ bushels per acre is nearly double of 

 that of No. 1, 170 baskets or 85 bushels per acre. 



This report oi any part of it is respectfully submitted for any use 

 you may please to make. The baskets are actual count and weight 

 at the time of husking, no allowance being made for shrinkage. 



LiKVi Adams. 



Gentlemen : — J. Burt has just handed me his statement. 

 Weight of corn on one rod was 36 lbs. 

 Weight of the stalks on the acre 5 tons, 818 lbs. 

 The fertilizer used was 600 lbs. Bowker's. 

 The crops on land the year before were cabbages and corn. 



Henry Burt. 



