21 



Say, 50 bushels at 1 doll. 

 Corn fodder on an acre 



:pens( 



$23 40 



To this may be added without serious injury to the corn crop three 

 or four cart-loads of pumpkins and fifty bushels of turnips. 



The large charge above made for planting, it is presumed, includes 

 manuring in the hill. He considers the land improved to the amount 

 of half the manure, which would of course lessen the expense, ten 

 dollars. 



Another farmer states : "I think ploughing an acre of swarded 

 land with two yoke of oxen and two hands will lake something short 

 of a day, cost $3 ; to plough old ground, one yoke of oxen 

 and one hand three-fourths of a day 1.50; harrowing an acre of 

 new ground 1.00; old ground 50 cents ; furrowing or hoeing 

 50 cents; planting 1.00; cultivating, harrowing, or hoeing, three 

 times 4.50; toppi.ng stalks 1.50; gathering 2.00; husking 3.00; 

 if manured in the hills, say 20 loads of manure, 20.00 ; making a total 

 on swarded land of 3G.50. I call a good crop of corn from GO to 70 

 bushels. I have raised SO bushels. I buy good manure at 1.50 

 per load." If we rale the crop at GO bushels at 1.00 per bushel, 

 it leaves a profit of 23.50, and to this is to be added the value of 

 the corn fodder equal to three-fourths of a ton of hay, say 12.00, 

 making the whole profit 35.50. Half the manure in this case 

 should be charged to the next crop. 



The estimate of another farmer in Essex County of the cost of 

 cultivating an acre of corn is as follows : 



" Hiilf the corn raised in our neighborhood is raised in a course 

 of crops ; first year, break up grass land and plant wiih corn ; second 

 year, corn or potatoes ; third year, wheat, bailey, or oats, with grass 

 seed ; then from three to four years in grass. We use from four to 

 ten cords of manure, average eight cords per acre ; but only half 

 should be charged to the com or potatoes. 



