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the acre ; no manure used. The crop of 1884 same, no 

 manure was used, about twelve hundred lbs. to the acre. 

 The soil a dark loam ; ploughed once six inches deep and 

 thoroughly harrowed with wheel and tooth harrow. Cost 

 of ploughing and harrowing $9 per acre. Amount of ma- 

 nure, 25 loads per acre of 30 bushels to the load, all spread 

 and ploughed under, all fresh from barn cellar. The val- 

 ue of manure on the ground, $2 per load. The corn was 

 planted May 25th by hand, 3 1-2 feet each way, with one 

 spoonful of phosphate in each hill, planted with eight 

 quarts of eight-rowed yellow corn ; cost of seed and plant- 

 ing, $3 per acre. The cultivator was run three times each 

 way with very little hoeing up to July 4th. Cost of cul- 

 tivating and hoeing, $4 per acre. The corn was cut and 

 stooked 16 hills to a stook the 8th of September. Cost 

 of harvesting, including husking, $12 per acre. As the 

 Committee did not give me any order, I measured two 

 rods on one side where it was a fair average per acre, and 

 husked it the 26th day of October, it being very sound 

 and dry, weighing 44 lbs. to the rod. My whole field is 

 about 3 acres ; I tried it on other parts of the field outside 

 of this acre, and it amounted to about 40 lbs. to the rod. 

 I think the condition it was in it would hold out at 40 lbs. 

 to the bushel, making 176 bushels of ears to the acre. 

 I certify that the above statement is correct. 



Oliver P. Killam, Competitor. 



This may certify that I measured two rods on one side 

 of the acre and helped get it in and husk it, and saw it 

 weighed, and the above statement is all right. 



John Emack. 



