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way, and hoed by hand twice. Cost of both, $5. Corn 

 was cut and stooked Sept. 21. Of the twenty-six rows 

 contained in the acre, eighteen have been husked and 

 found to yield 140 bushels of ears of corn. Allowing 

 the remainder of the field the same average, it gives me 

 202J bushels, nearly, of corn in the ear, and at least three 

 tons of well-cured fodder. 



I have shelled some of the corn, and from seventy 

 pounds of corn in the ear obtained fifty-six pounds of 

 shelled corn. This gives a little more than 101 bushels 

 of shelled corn from the acre. 



cost or CROP. 



Barn manure, 



Fertilizer, 



Plowing and harrowing, 



Seed and planting, 



Cultivating and hoeing, 



Harvesting, 



$89 00 

 Allowing half value of manure to remain in ground, 80 00 



Total cost per acre, $59 00 



Robert Frank Dodge, Wenham, Mass. 



I hereby certify that I have measured one acre of land, 

 planted to corn, for Robert Frank Dodge, of Wenham, to 

 be entered for premium with Essex Agricultural Society. 



R. E. Dodge, Wenham. 



Oct. 22, 1887. 



This is to certify that I have weighed and measured 

 the 140 bushels of corn already husked, raised by Robert 

 Frank Dodge, of Wenham, and entered for premium. 



Francis S. Lovett, Jr. 



Oct. 1887. 



