REPORTS ON CORN. 



The acre of corn I enter for premium was produced on land 

 that in a four year's rotation of corn, rye and two crops of grass* 

 had produced ten crops of corn within the last forty years. This 

 year's crop of corn was the heaviest of the ten, all of which [ 

 have had the pleasure of harvesting. The land was plowed early 

 in May. A dressing of coarse cornstalk manure was plowed in 

 with the turf. It was harrowed with a Randall harrow both 

 ways, and marked in rows three and one-half feet apart. Nine 

 dollar's worth of cotton hull ashes was strewed in the rows. It 

 was then planted with a Billings corn planter, which drops hills 

 four feet apart in the rows, and covers the ashes and corn com- 

 plete. The work of planting was finished the twenty-fifth of 

 May. It has long been my practice to use unleached wood ashes 

 for starting corn in the hill, but the experiment this year with 

 cotton hull ashes indicate that they are better than wood ashes to 

 start corn. The corn was earlier and heavier with an application 

 of the same cost of hull* ashes, when compared with wood ashes 

 side by side. The corn was cut and stacked the tenth of Sept., 

 and in the acre was sixty large stacks. The average weight of 

 ears at husking, Sept. 20, per stack, was 7 7-13 pounds, making the 

 product of the acre, 4.550, or sixty-six and three-sevenths bushels, 

 at 70 pounds each. There is considerable difference in the shrink- 

 age of corn in drying ; this would probably shrink twenty per 

 cent. The cost of the crop was as follows ; 



