CROPS. 



COEN CROPS, 



STATEMENT OF N. & B. SMITH. 



The piece of corn we offer for premium, contains one acre and five 

 rods. It was mowed three years previous to 1853, and not manured 

 during that time. In December, 1852, it was plowed with the Mich- 

 igan plow, eight inches deep. A compost was made upon the lot — 

 containing about twenty loads of clear manure and thirty bushels of 

 oyster-shell lime, slacked in a brine, made from two bushels of salt. 

 This compost was spread upon the furrows and harrowed in. The 

 corn was planted by acorn-planter, on the 14th of May. Ten bushels 

 of shell lime and ashes were dropped by a machine. The corn was 

 hoed three times and grass seed was sowed at the third hoeing. On 

 the tenth of September, we harvested the crop. 



VALUE OF CKOP. 



98 bushels, 22 quarts, at 92 cents, 



4 baskets soft corn, .... 



3 tons of fodder, at $5, 



EXPENSES. 



20 loads of manure, .... 

 30 bushels of lime and 2 of salt, . 

 Plowing, hauling manure, &c., . 

 Spreading manure and harrowing. 

 Planting and seed. 

 Hoeing and cultivating, 

 Cutting and stacking. 

 Carting and husking. 

 Interest on land, 



$90.80 



1.00 



15.00 



-$106.80 



^20.00 

 3.75 

 8.00 

 2.00 

 1.00 

 10.00 

 3.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 



$61.75 



Net gain, 

 Sunderland, Nov. 15, 1853. 



$45.05 

 N. & B. Smith. 



STATEMENT OF R. T. WHEELOCK. 



The acre, on which my crop of Indian corn was raised, is part of a 

 field of three and three-fourths acres, in Amherst. This field is a 

 hard, stiff, loamy soil resting on a subsoil of gravel, with a sprink- 

 ling of cobble-stones. It has been pastured. About six years pre- 

 vious to my laying it down to pasture, it had been apparently ex- 

 hausted, by cropping, of every particle of food, capable of nourishing 

 plants. In 1841-2, I attempted to cultivate this lot, and the result 



