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Three weeks after cutting the coin I 

 started husking it on tables in the field. 

 I threw all except the seed corn into 

 bags and emptied them into the bin. 

 The seed corn I hung up in the sheds 

 and shop. 



The acre yielded 88.2 bushels of corn, 

 8 bushels of that was seed corn and 2.2 

 bushels was pop corn. I figured the 

 common corn at the Boston Maiket quo- 

 tations for that day, $2.10 a bushel, the 

 seed at .50f lower than the price at which 

 I sell it, which is $4.00 a bushel, and the 

 poor corn at $1 a bushel. 



The co.st of raising my crop of corn 

 was $39.75 which is 45('- a bushel. A 

 ; little over half of this cost was for 

 manure and commercial fertilizer. The 

 corn came to $192, the stalks $8.00, and 

 prizes $8.75 (leaving out $100 for get- 

 ting the corn) so the profit was $171. 



I shall sell the best of my corn for 

 seed. The strain "Johnson's Valley 

 Vista" is very good as can be seen by 

 the yield and the prizes the corn has 

 taken. The next best corn we will sell 

 for household use. What is left we will 

 either feed to our stock and poultry or 

 sell. 



I have increased the yield that we 

 used to get by 65% and I think, with 

 what I have learned from past experi- 

 ence, that I will be able to increase it 

 still more. 



C'jncUuled from pai2:e 4 



bin while it was weighed and the 

 placed in the bin loose. 



When I weighed my corn I found that 

 I had 90.14 bushels of shelled corn be- 

 sides the two bu.shels of seed corn. The 

 common corn I figured at $2.68 per 

 bushel ( a price which corn had been 

 sold at an auction in the neighborhood) 

 and $4.00 for seed corn. 



The cost of raising my corn was 

 $32.50 which is a little more than 35 

 cents per bushel. I received for my 

 corn $248.57, thus giving me a profit of 

 $216.07. 



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Of all the small grains the oat crop is 

 perhaps less often fertilized than is any 

 other — partly, because in northern re- 

 gions it follows corn, which is usually 

 manured heavily, and partly because 

 heavy feeding with a poorly balanced 

 plantfood ration may cause the crop to 

 lodge badly. 



"The oats crop makes most of its 

 growth early in the season, when the 

 weather is cool and before much of the 

 nitrogen in the soil becomes available 

 for plant food. For this reason the ap- 

 plication of a small quantity of nitrogen 

 in a readily available form will hasten 

 its growth and result in materially in- 

 crea.sed yields." 



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