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PLOT NO 3, 1 ACRE. 



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To the expense of cultivation, $ 19 85 



" " '• fertilizer, 32 00 



Profit, $ 48 32 



The above were three good crops of corn. As far as I could 

 judge, the plots selected by the committee were fair average samples 

 of the respective fields, and I have correctly stated the weight of 

 corn and stover, and correctly as I could, have calculated the con- 

 sequent yield per acre by the usual method of allowing 70 lbs. of 

 ears for a bushel of shelled corn . 



The result is very gratifying, but unfortunately, like many other 

 agricultural calculations, it wont hold out. The cost is a fixed suin 

 and is apt to be understated ; but the crop is subject to a portentous 

 shrinkage, which materially reduces the balance of profit, if it does 

 not quite turn it over to the other side. Exactly how much this 

 shrinkage is, I cannot at this moment say. President Stockbridge 

 and Mr. Horton have both made interesting experiments to determine 

 this question, and I have bagged and hung up the corn and stover 

 above referred to, to see how much it will lose in two, four and six 

 months. 



John C. Dillon. 



