22 



Four cords of manure are . 



Ploughing including team, 3 days work 



Opening holes and putting in manure, 3 days 



Dropping and covering, 1 day 



Hoeing three limes, 5 days .... 



Cutting and securing tops, 2 days 



Gathering and husking, 4 days 



$34 00 



He puts the produce at 40 bushels and values it at $30, and the 

 fodder at $8, making $38. 



In this case the produce is less than such cultivation ought to 

 warrant ; and the value of the manure is estimated at a high rate. 



This farmer states, likewise, that he estimates the expense of 

 cultivating an acre of potatoes to be the same as an acre of corn, 

 $34; and the produce 240 bushels, deducting 15 for seed, will 

 leave 225 bushels, at 20 cents, equal to $45. The above estimates 

 he adds are for our stiff loams ; but from light loams and sand)"" 

 lands I should put the potatoe crop at from 150 to 200 bushels." 



The statements above given are from a farmer, who in his ex- 

 treme concern lest he should make an exaggerated estimate, has 

 certainly underrated the produce of his own fields ; and designs to 

 give the average of his vicinity. It is obvious how greatly the 

 increase of ten or twenty bushels to his corn crop, and one hundred 

 bushels to his potatoe crop per acre, by more liberal and skilful 

 cultivation, would change the results, without increasing the expense 

 of manuring and cultivation in proportion. With less than 50 

 bushels of corn to the acre and three hundred bushels of potatoes 

 no farmer ought to rest contented. 



I add the estimates of a farmer in Middlesex county, whose yield 

 of corn is 55 bushels to the acre ; and who frequently gets 100 

 bushels of turnips from his corn ground. 



55 bushels coin at 1 doll. . . 55 00 



100 bushels turnips at 12 cents, less 



expense of gathering, 5 dolls. . 7 00 



