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Br. 



Interest and taxes on land, $3 00 



Plowing, harrowing and marking, 3 00 



Barnyard manure, half spent in corn, 7 50 



Cotton hull ashes, do. do., do. 4 50 



Cultivating and hoeing, 4 50 



Cutting and husking, 10 00 



Total cost, 



6V. 



Sixty bushels of dry corn, at 75 cents per bushel, 

 Three tons of fodder, at 15.00 per ton. 



Total value of crop. 

 Total cost. 



Value above cost, |27 50 



James Comins. 



The acre and quarter of corn which I offer for premium, 

 consists of three pieces: — No. 1, one-half acre, planted with 

 "Angel of Midnight;" No. 2, one-half acre, planted with "Ohio 

 Dent," and No. 3, one-quarter acre, planted with " Self-husking 

 corn." The character of all three pieces was very much alike 

 the soil being sandy loam, in good condition from' previous culti- 

 vation, and no barn manure was used this year. Plowed May 29 

 with Wiard plow, harrowed with Acme harrow, marked three 

 feet apart one way and eighteen inches the other. Planted May 

 31, with " Macomber's Improved Corn, Bean and Beet Planter," 

 in rows three feet apart, hills eighteen inches apart, three kernels 

 to the hill. Thi-ee days after planting I applied a fertilizer com- 

 posed of two parts of hard wood ashes, one part of di'y fish, and 

 one part of bone meal, thoroughly mixed, at the rate of 1200 lbs 

 per acre. The ingredients cost me at the depot $21 per ton, to 

 which must be added cartage and cost of mixing and applying. 

 I scatter the fertilizer along the rows, over the corn, and then 

 harrow with Acme harrow. This completely mixes the fertilizer 

 with the surface soil right over the corn, and also destroys any 



