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Dr. Interest on land, at $200.00 per acre, . . $12.00 



Taxes on land about . . . . . 1.35 



Nine and a half cords of manure, at $6.00 per cord, 57.00 

 Ploughing, ....... 4.00 



Spreading manure, cultivating and harrowing, . 5.00 



Crossing out, manuring in hill, and planting, . 7.00 



One peck of seed, ..... .50 



Cultivating and hoeing twice, .... 9.00 



Cutting and getting in stocks, . . . 5.00 



Harvesting, . . . . . . .7.00 



Net profit, (after paying for the manure, $49.20,) $157.05 

 per acre ; or if, as is usual, we deduct one-third of the manure, 

 there will be a net profit of $68.20 per acre. 



You will observe that we have made quite a deduction in weight 

 from the butts and husks since you weighed them. Then they 

 were somewhat moist, but have since been drying on rails over 

 the barn floor and now appear to be perfectly dry, and instead of 

 68 pounds to the row, they now weigh only 53^, making, as we 

 stated, 4792 pounds per acre. 



The way we have managed our corn fodder, drying the top 

 stalks under cover and salting down the butts and husks, we are 

 confident, from past experience, that they are actually worth more 

 to us than we have put them at. 



E. &. J. SiAS. 

 Milton, November 14, 1856. 



A. L. SMITH'S STATEMENT. 



The acre of ground on which the corn was raised which I offer 

 for premium, has been in grass for the last fourteen years. The 

 soil is a gravelly loam, and was ploughed in November of last year, 

 with a Michigan double plough, ten inches deep. The second 

 week of May I spread on and ploughed in, four inches deep, four 

 cords of compost manure, made of ditch mud, bottoms of coal pits. 

 loam, and the droppings of cattle. The field was furrowed only one 



