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RECAPITULATION. 



Cost of Ploughing, $5.00 



Manure, SO.OO 



Seed and planting, 2.00 



Cultivation, 9.00 



Harvesting, 6.00 



$52.00 



Product. — Fodder, 1,300 pounds, and 6,600 pounds eai-s 

 of corn — equal to 165 bushels — producing, when shelled, 34 1: 

 quarts to the bushel, and weighing (yS pounds to the bushel. 



Remarks. — The crop in 1863, by the above statement, was 

 grass. After taking it off I ploughed the land very lightly, 

 as my custom is, using one man and a yoke of oxen. In the 

 spring I ploughed it eight inches deep, picked the stones, 

 harrowed it twice, furrowed and planted, as above. In plough- 

 ing deep we have great advantage, being easier cultivated, 

 standing the drouglit better, and producing larger crops. 

 The land in this part of the county, with some exceptions, 

 has been neglected. My- method is to plough deep, pulver- 

 ize well, and hoe three times, as it tends to preserve the mois- 

 ture and kill weeds. I never use the cultivator the third time 

 hoeing, as it exposes the fibres to the sun and checks the 

 growth of the corn. 



STATEMENT OF M. F. HILL. 



The crop of 1863, on the field on which the corn is 

 planted, which I offer for premium, was grass, no manure 

 being used. The crop of 1864 was corn, and the quantity of 

 land one acre. Fifty loads of course manure, ploughed in, 

 and ten loads compost — half muck and half manure — put ia 

 the ho<le, in 1864. The subsoil is clay. 



