54 €}RAm. 



the hill, of the eighfc-rowetl yellow variety, used a plough cultivator 

 three times, and hand hoed each time ; cut up and stocked about the 

 16th Sept., husked the 20th October. 



I cut and stook my corn, thereby saving 25 per cent, of labor, com- 

 pared with the old-fashioned way of topping corn, or " cutting stalks," 

 besides saving the stover in a good condition for fodder, my stock eat- 

 ing the whole of it. 



Cost of plowing, and other preparation, 



" Seed and planting, 



" • Cultivating, &c., 



" Harvesting and husking, 

 Value of manure, 



$71 00 



CYRUS KILBURN'S STATEMENT. 



WHEAT. 



The land on which I raised my wheat was loamy with a clayey sub- 

 soil; in 1865 the crop was Indian corn, manured with 35 loads of 

 compost to the acre; previous to that it was in grass. October 1st of 

 that year it was plowed seven inches deep ; about the 5th of that 

 month after harrowing the land, I sowed two bushels of Blue-stem win- 

 ter wheat ; the latter part of July the crop was harvested, the yield 

 beino- 22 bushels to the acre, and one ton of straw. 



It was not sowed early enough by a month on account of the extreme 

 drou"-ht. When it is well floured it is as good as the best St. Louis 



flour. 



Cost of plowing and preparing, 6 00 



*♦ Seed and sowing, 10 00 



Harvesting. 10 00 



$25 00 



LUTHER PAGE'S STATEMENT. 



RYE. 



The soil on which I raised my rye is a clayey bottom with a black 

 loam ; for the two previous years it had grown corn, and was manured 

 with thirty-two loads from my barn cellar ; the grain was sowed the 

 last of September with one and a quarter bushels to the acre, after 

 plowing once six inches deep. The land for the previous 19 or 20 



