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T R A X S A C T r O >' S 



swamp muck to one of horse manure ; all thoroughly worked togeth- 

 er by the hogs, and did not cost over fifty cents a load, though I have 

 set the price a little higher. I plowed, about the 2()th of May, and 

 planted on the 23d, with Woodard's improved planter, dropping 

 about one-half bushel of superphosphate of lime in the hill. The 

 rows Avere abput three feet apart, and the hills two feet apart. The 

 corn was well stocked and very even. The drought affected the 

 crop but little, the land being plowed deep. The crop was gathered, 

 about tlie last of September, and has been scraped, and the seed 

 cleaned up. I have made no account of carting or spreading the ma- 

 nure, as I think it improved the land more than what the manure 

 cost. 



VALUE OF CKOP. 



700 pounds of broom-brush, at 10 cents, 

 52 bushels of broom-seed, at 40 cents, 



EXPENSES. 



Plowing and harrowing. 

 Planting and seed, 

 Phosphate and manure, 

 Interest on land. 

 Hoeing three times. 

 Harvesting and scraping, 

 Cleaning seed, . 



Net profit on one acre, 

 Sunderland, Nov. 15, 1854. 



$90 80 



4 38 

 6 50 

 1 50 



826 40 

 $64 40 



STATEMENT OF KELITA HUBBARD. 



The piece of land on which this crop was raised, contains one 

 acre. The land, previous to 1853, had been mowed for several years. 

 It was turned over in May of tbat year, and planted with Indian 

 corn ; fifteen dollars worth of compost manure being plowed in, and 

 a single handful of a mixture of twelve-sixteenths of ashes, three- 

 sixteenths of lime and one-sixteenth of plaster dropped in the hill. 

 The crop was good, yielding about sixty-two bushels of shelled corn 

 to the acre. The land is sandy loam with a gravelly subsoil, inclined 

 to be wet from springs above. It was so wet, that I could not plant 

 till the last of May, 1854. I manured in the hill, with ten cart- 

 loads of compost manure, worth six dollars. I planted on the ma- 

 nure, hoed three times, and harvested about the first of October. 



YALUE OE CROP. 



800 pounds of broom-brush, at 10 cents, 

 70 bushels of seed, at 40 cents, . 



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-$108 GO 



