274 MAIZE. 



In Lichfield, Connecticut, the cost of produce has been, for the 

 items as stated above, eighteen dollars twenty-five cents, or the 

 cost of each bushel thirty-six and one-half cents. The acre pro- 

 duce was fifty bushels, so that it stood thus : 



Dollars. Cents. 



Fifty bushels, at seventy-five cents . . . 37 50 

 Cost ... . 18 25 



Gain . . . . 19 5 



or 3 12s. per acre. 



The cost of producing maize varies somewhat in the other 

 States, thus : 



Per bushel. 



Cents. 



New Hampshire (Unity) the cost was . . 50 



Fayette county, Pennsylvania . . . 16 1-4 



Donesvitle, Michigan, only . . . ' 17 1-2 



Plymouth, Massachusetts . . 17 7-10 



The cost on producing this crop was small, but it appears to 

 have been a small crop, and did not bring more than thirty cents 

 per bushel. 



In Monroe county, the richest land in the State of New York, 

 estimating the land at fifteen dollars per acre, the producing cost 

 stood at : 



Dollars. Cents. 

 Interest at six per cent. . 45 



One plougliing sward, cover or stubble 

 Harrowing, furrowing, seed, and planting 

 Cultivating three times and hoeing . 

 Husking on the hill 

 Shelling and cleaning 



I 00 



871-2 



1 00 

 1 00 

 1 00 



5 82 1-2 



This yielded fifty bushels, the cost of producing the bushel was 

 eleven and three-fifths cents. This low cost was owing to the 

 fact of no manure being used ; and while it speaks volumes as to 

 the natural fertility of American soils, yet it reflects very disgrace- 

 fully upon the careless system adopted there, as under such treat- 

 ment no land could continue, after some years, to produce a crop 

 which could come into competition with those from newer and less 

 exhausted lands ; but if under a good system of tillage the ground 

 was yearly renewed with manure, and those amendments which 

 every soil requires, after a crop has been raised from it, added to 

 the soil in top-dressing and in plougbing-in, we should never hear 

 of the exhausted state of New England land, or see the sons of 

 the soil moving west and cultivating newer soils, thus removing 

 much of the capital and intelligence of a country away from it. 



Supposing the corn of Monroe county sold at seventy cents per 

 bushel, the balance would' appear thus : 



