20 



Product. 



Thirty-fivo bushels corn, at 75 cts., . $26 25 



Stalks, valued at twice cost of cutting, . 2 00 



Bottom stalks or butts, . . . 1 GO 



$29 25 



Profits, . . . . . $7 85 



A very different estimate from the preceding is generally put upon 

 the stalks. Throughout the state, the farmers, who are careful and 

 successful in the management of their corn fodder, consider it for any 

 neat stock as equal in value to three-fourths, and most of them to a 

 ton of hay. 



Another farm in Sheffield, on the alluvial or river land, gives the 

 following estimate : 



Ploughing, ...... 



Ten loads of manure in the hill, half to the corn. 



Getting out manure, ..... 



Planting, $1 ; seed, 25 cts. 



Hoeing three times, ..... 



Topping the stalks, .... 



Gathering and husking, .... 



Interest on land, at $75, 



$20 25 

 Produce. 

 Sixty bushels corn, at 75 cts., .... $45 00 

 Corn fodder, . . . . . 3 00 



$48 00 



Balance in favor of the crop, . . $27 75 



Egremont. — The usual rotation is oats, rye, corn, oats or rye and 

 grass seed. 



Expenses of an acre of corn. 



Ploughing and harrowing, . . . . $1 50 



Manure, 15 loads, half charged to the corn crop, . 3 75 



Getting out manure, $1 ; planting, $1 ; seed, 25 cts., . 2 25 



