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VALUE OF CROP. 



75 bushels of corn, at $1, . 



4895 pounds of fodder, at $6 per ton, 



4 1-2 bushels of soft corn, 



EXPENSES. 



18 loads manure, .... 



8 bushels leached ashes. 



Plowing, harrowing and hauling manure. 



Planting and seed, .... 



Hoeing and ashing, .... 



Cutting and stacking, 



Carting and husking. 



Interest on land, .... 



Net gain, 

 Sunderland, Oct. 25, 1854. 



)75 00 



17 47 



1 12 



$S0 59 



$•42 55 

 $48 04 



STATEMENT OF CHESTER COWLES. 



I offer for premium a crop of corn raised on three acres. It was 

 old pasture land. I seeded it down and mowed it, two years. In 

 Nov. 1853, it was plowed with the Double Michigan plow. In the 

 Spring, I harrowed it over. I then carted on my barnyard manure, at 

 the rate of fifteen loads per acre. I then spread it and harrowed it 

 again. The corn was planted by the hoe, on the 10th of May. It 

 was hoed three times after the first hoeing. I put on plaster and ashes 

 mixed together. In the second week of September, I harvested the 

 crop. 



VALUE OF CROP. 



180 bushels, at $100, 

 8 baskets soft corn, 

 Corn fodder, estimated. 



45 loads of Manure, 

 Manure and spreading. 

 Planting and seed. 

 Hoeing and cultivating, 

 (hitting and stacking. 

 Carting and husking. 

 Interest on land, 



EXPENSES. 



$180 



2 



18 



00 

 00 

 00 



$200 00 



$129 00 



Net gain, 

 Amherst, Nov. 14, 1854. 



12 



$71 00 



