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three feet apart — hills three feet four inches apart — and put five bushels of 

 ashes in the hills, which were not raised. I hoed three times. On the 24th 

 of September the crop was harvested. 



Value of Crop. 



9U bushels corn, at $1, . . . 

 3 tons fodder, at $6, 

 9 bushels soft corn, at 25 cents, . 



Expenses. 



19 loads manure, at $1, 

 5 bushels ashes, at 22 cents, 

 Plowing and harrowing, 

 Hauling manure and planting seed, 

 Hoeing, cutting and stacking, 

 Carting and husking. 

 Interest on land, .... 



Net profit, 

 Sunderland, Nov. 15, 1855. 



$91 25 



18 00 



2 25 



$11^ 



50 



$19 00 



$43 60 

 $67 90 



Statement of J. Edwards Porter, 



My crop was raised on two acres of sandy loam. In 1854, I took off a 

 crop of rye, say twelve bushels per acre ; and in 1853, a crop of broom-corn 

 of some four hundred pounds per acre. I hauled from a muck-hole, near by, 

 some sixty loads, which I deposited in four piles, placing at the bottom of 

 each pile a load of horse manure, and another in the middle of the pile. In 

 November, I added two loads of horse manure to each heap, and had the 

 whole worked over, and composted. In the spring, a small quantity of ma- 

 nure was added, and one more turning and mixing of the compost prepared 

 it for use. This was evenly spread over the surface, at the rate of thirty- 

 five loads of compost to the acre, and upon this I sowed one hundred pounds 

 of Guano, and plowed the whole under, to the depth of seven inches. 



163i bushels of corn, at 



Value of Crop. 



Expenses. 



$163 50 



Plowing, harrowing, planting and rolling. 

 Seed, 75 cents; hoeing, $8, 

 70 loads compost, $42 ; 200 pounds Guano, $6, 

 Interest on land, at $100 per acre, 



Net profit, 

 Hadlef, Nov. 14, 1855. 



$74 42 

 $89 08 



