22 



*As I want it to feed to my stock, tlie crop is worth to me a little 

 more than this. If I had to sell it, I must deduct cost of marketing 

 and delivery. 



John C. Dillon. 



The laud entered for the corn premium was an old pasture that had 

 not been plowed for years. In October, 1885, it was plowed about 

 six inches deep and the third week in April fitted with a wheel har- 

 row and furrowed with a double mould board plow, and ten loads of 

 manure put in the hill and corn and manure covered with a hand hoe. 



Cultivated with common cultivator twice, once in a row and twice 

 with Prout's horse-hoe and the weeds cut in June once and in August 

 once. The corn and cob weighed from one rod 36 1 pounds, shelled 

 corn 25|^ pounds, cob 9| pounds ; shrinkage in shelling l^ pounds 

 and the corn at 25^ pounds to the rod makes 72 i bushels to the acre. 

 The corn is green and will probably shrink to about 50 bushels to the 

 acre. 



Dr. 



To 10 loads of manure, $10 00 



Labor in planting and fitting land, 10 50 



Hoeing and cultivating, 3 80 



Harvesting, 1 25 



Husking and care of stalks, 5 00 



Total, $30 55 



Cr. 



By 50 bushels of corn at 60 cents, $30 00 



4 tons of stalks, 9 00 



$39 00 



If there is 72^ bushels of corn at 60 cents per bushel and 1| tons 



of stalks it leaves a balance in favor of credit of $21.73 to the acre. 



H. C. West. 



ONE ACRE CORN GROWN BY HENRY TILLSON, SUNDERLAND, IN 1886. 



It had been mowed four years and plowed late in the fall of 1885. 

 As soon as dry enough it was thoroughly pulverized with wheel-har- 



