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apart in the drills, with the Plymouth county or smutty white 

 corn, the rows from 3^ to 4 feet apart. It was ploughed and 

 hoed twice. The last of September and the first of October the 

 whole was cut up at the bottom, carried to the barn and husked, 

 and we had 240 baskets of good corn and 8 of pig corn, which I 

 think is equal to 4 of good, which would make 244 baskets. I 

 have shelled and weighed several baskets, and found them to 

 average 29.75 lbs. each, equal to 129.62 bushels of 66 lbs. each 

 on 1 acre 1 qr. 11 rods of land, being at the rate of 98.29 bushels 

 per acre. The land on which the corn was raised is a strong 

 loamy soil, sloping to the v,'est. I think that it was not injured 

 by the frost, but a part of it was, very probably, by the dry weather, 

 and the whole of it was very much, as you saw, by the high wind, 

 which nearly levelled the whole field. Had I selected the best 

 acre, I have no doubt that it Avould have produced over 100 bushels. 

 The value of the crop I estimate as follows : 

 129.62 bushels of corn, at $1 per bush. $129.62 

 4| tons'of corn fodder and stalks, $9, 40.50 



15170.12 



Expense of cultivation I have estimated as follows : 

 Interest on the land, at $200 per ann. $16.00 

 Taxes supposed to be about . . . 1.30 

 Carting manure, ploughing, hoeing, &c. . 27.00 

 8:1: cords of manure, at $6, less -^, . 33.00 



Harvesting and husking corn, . . 10.00 



87.30 



Profit, $82.82 



from 1 acre 1 qr. 11 rods, or at the rate of $62.80 per acre. 



I have estimated the value of the corn fodder at $40.50, from 

 the fact that last year the fodder from a smaller piece of ground, 

 which was saved by salting down with five or six hundred pounds 

 of barley straw, kept my cow through the Avinter without any grain 

 in as good order as she could have been kept on two tons of Eng- 

 lish hay. JosiAH F. Twombly. 



Milton, Nov. 9, 1855. 



