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Value of Crop. 



11 1-8 bushels of wheat, at $2.50 per 



bushel, ..... $27.81 

 750 lbs. straw, at 30 cts. per hundred, 2.25 



$30.06 



Deduct cost, 12.24: 



Net profit, $17.82 



S. W. RicHAKDSoN & Son. 

 Franldm, Sept. 24, 1862. 



REPORT ON MIXED CROPS. 



The Committee on Mixed Crops report that the only entry was 

 made by Mr. H. L. Stone, of Grantville, for his crop of corn and 

 beans, and recommend that the Society award him the second 

 premium of $1.00. 



For the Committee, 



MARSHAL STEARNS, Chairman. 

 BrooJclme, Dee. 1, 1862. 



STATEMENT OF H. L. STONE. 



Having obtained at a cost of eight cents per bushel, delivered 

 on the field, a quantity of corn that had been badly damaged by 

 fire and water, I resolved to test the theory of agricultural chem- 

 ists, that " any crop can be raised by supplying the elements 

 thereof under proper circumstances." I accordingly hired the 

 poorest land in my neighborhood — an old sand bank — and planted 

 it with the Webster or smutty white corn, four feet apart each 

 way, with the white pea bean between the hills one way. The 

 result has been as handsome a crop of corn as I have ever seen 

 (the ears, almost without exception, being filled to the extreme 

 tip,) and a fair crop of beans. I think that while other manures 

 might have produced as many beans, no other manure with which 

 I am acquainted would have produced as much sound corn on the 

 same land. This rotten corn, composted with loam and coal ashes, 

 was applied about one quart to the hill. Herewith you have a 

 statement of the costs and results. 



Products. 



2899 lbs. fodder, (husk,) at $7.00 per ton, $10.14 

 110 bundles stocks, (407 lbs.,) at $10 per ton, 2.03 



