50 STATEMENTS. 



once, six or seven inches deep, June 2d, 3d and 4th ; harrowed 

 thoroughly and marked out three and one-half feet each way ; 

 the cost of preparing the same, nine dollars ; appHed twenty-five 

 loads of manure, about one-half of which was spread upon the 

 grass and plowed under, and the remainder spread upon the fur- 

 rows, the cost being seventy-five dollars ; planted the same, June 

 6th, with Randall & Jones' Double Corn Planter, using six or 

 eight quarts of Carter corn, which cost for seed and planting, 

 one dollar and thirty cents ; cultivated with Horse Hoe, both 

 ways twice, and hoed by hand twice. After haying I went 

 through with Horse Hoe each way, which cost twelve dollars for 

 cultivation, including weeding and thinning ; cut stalks in Octo- 

 ber, bound and hung up in barn ; to load them, laid in heaps of 

 eight hills each and loaded with corn fork ; harvested the Corn 

 in November, the cost for same, including storing, husking or 

 threshing, ten dollars ; the stover was estimated at two and one- 

 half tons. 



Should we not get a more accurate estimate of the cost of plow- 

 ing and other preparation, the value of manure, the cost of cul- 

 tivation, weeding and thinning and the cost of harvesting, if the 

 Committee having the grain crop in charge should estimate all 

 on the same scale, than we do where the various competitors es- 

 timate their own, each on a difierent scale. 



In ascertaining the amount of crop I do not understand that 

 the competitor has anything to do either in measuring or weigh- 

 ing. The Committee enters the field, exercises his judgment in 

 selecting an average rod of the grain, takes it home, and when in 

 a merchantable state, shells, weighs, and reports, and the action 

 of the Committee is based on this report. 



To refer to my own case, if I should weigh the entire crop, 

 and when dry, shell and weigh again, the Committee would not 

 ibe governed by my figures but by their own. 



Cost of Seed and Planting, 11 30 



" Plowing and Preparation, 9 00 



" Manure twenty-five loads, 75 00 



^' Cultivating and Harvesting, 22 00 



lOT 30 



Statement of Joseph Goodrich. 



CORN. 



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 In 1866 and 1867, my land was in grass and not manured ; 

 the soil is a clayey loam ; plowed once eight inches deep, the 



