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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 



$37,54 upon one acre of land. He must work 

 very hard and enrich the soil profusely with the 

 sweat of his brow to realize a profit of $14,72 af- 

 ter that great expenditure. I showed the article 

 to an old farmer, and after he had carefully pe- 

 rused it, he bluntly exclaimed, (I do not wish to 

 offend,) "That's all a lie, he would sink a fortune 

 at that rate." "Investigator" must either be a very 

 slow worker or have a very poor team, if it takes 

 him one day to plow one acre of land. Here Ave 

 can easily plow three acres. His account gives 

 one man one-half day to mark off one acre, when 

 one man can mark off three acres here. "Done 

 easily," the farmers say. Hoeing, plowing and 

 hilling is unnecessary work here. "Investigator" 

 estimates the wear and tear of tools at $4 per 

 acre. He must be "death" on tools, or buy those 

 of the poorest material and metal. It is an item 

 we seldom estimate here, except in breaking prai- 

 rie, and then it costs $2 per day. Yet we think 

 that 50 cents will pay all damages done to tools 

 on cultivated ground. But here is our estimate 

 of a field of three acres : 



Three Acres of Corn. Dr. 



To one man and one team of horses one day plowing $3,00 



To one man and one team one-half day harrowing 2,00 



To one man one-half day marking, (easily done) 1,00 



To plant in}; and seed 1,00 



To cultivating 2,00 



To hauling in 1,00 



To cutting up 2,50 



To three days' husliing 3,00 



To wear and tear of tools 50 



To shelling and marketing at 5 cents per bushel 9,00 



$25,00 



The very loAvest average of corn is 60 bushels 

 per acre, although we often raise 75 bushels per 

 acre. When corn was plenty, it could be bought 

 at the field at 30 cents per buskel ; now it is worth 

 75 cents. So we will raise it at the present price : 



Three Acres of Corn. Cr. 



By 180 busliels of corn, at 75c per bushel $135,00 



Byfodder sold 5,00 



By 10 loads of pumpkins, at $1 per wagon-load 10,00 



By 10 bushels of soft corn, at 30c per bushel 3,00 



$153,00 



I make the total cost of three acres of corn to 

 be $25 and the receipts for the same $153, leav- 

 ing $128 profit from the three acres. This may 

 seem enormous to an Eastern farmer, yet it is true, 

 and I venture to assert that a poor farmer can re- 

 alize $37 profit from every acre of corn he culti- 

 vates. 



A farmer adjoining has 600 acres of land. He 

 cultivateg 140 acres in corn, and asserts that it 

 only costs him $5 the acre. He cultivates a large 

 vegetable garden also, and employs four men to 

 cultivate the whole, paying them $15 a month. I 

 have estimated the labor at $1 per day in my ac- 

 count. This man sold at the field last fall 2,700 

 bushels at 30 cents per bushel, and has sold corn 

 at various prices during the winter. If he had 

 kept all of his corn till now he would have real- 

 ized a large sum. He has also wintered 40 head 

 of cattle, 20 hogs, 2 horses and 4 mules. 



Give a man two good horses, and he can culti- 

 vate 40 acres. A very old man near by cultivates 

 25 acres of corn, and says, " 'taint hard, neither." 

 He has quite a quantity of stock to attend to also. 



Seventy.five miles from the river, corn is sell- 

 ing at 30 cents per bushel, and there, they say, 



corn costs 12^ cents per bushel to raise. Fod- 

 der we seldom sell. We put up a large quantity 

 of hay. After the ears are stripped from the field, 

 each farmer turns his whole stock into the field 

 and there they remain until they have eaten up 

 everything clean. So farming in Kansas is cer- 

 tainly profitable. Susie Vogl. 

 Sumner, K. T., May 29, 1860. 



AGiUCULTURAL LECl'UKES. 



We have before us a pamphlet of nearly 200 | 

 pages, giving the outlines of the lectures delivered 

 before the Agricultural Convention at New Ha- 

 ven in February last. They Avere reported by Hen- 

 KY S. Olcott, Esq., and published at the time 

 in the N. Y. Tribune. Mr. O, has since corrected 

 his notes, and after a revision by the lecturers 

 themselves, they are brought together in this form i 

 for general use. They contain a large amount of i 

 valuable and reliable matter wlaich ought to be i 

 extensively before the peojile. 



In one of Judge Fren'CII's lectures upon Drain- ■ 

 age, Ave notice an item against the slovenly and 

 wasteful practice oi open ditches Avhich we cannot i 

 Avell refrain from laying before the reader. The ' 

 extensive operations by draining, of Gov. Ham- 

 mond, of South Carolina, Avere alluded to, and the 

 reporter continues : "Two acres, if I recollect 

 aright, of this corn-field measured ninety-eight 

 bushels each, and the plantation crop amounted, 

 in the aggregate, to about 56,000 bushels. This 

 was raised on a SAvamp, just like many thousand i 

 other acres in South Carolina, but rendered thus 

 fertile by open ditching. Gov. Hammond's expe- 

 rience goes to corroborate Avhat yesterday Judge 

 French said against open ditches. In one season, 

 only, because of neglect to clean them out, the 

 ditches filled up, so that on the 1500 acres the 

 crop was shortened 30,000 bushels, and in one , 

 year more, a further loss of 15,000 was experi- i 

 enced." I 



These "Outlines" are published by Saxton, 

 Barker & Co., NeAV York, and we hope will find 

 their way into the homestead of all our farmers. 



ABOUT EINQEONB. 



I noticed in a late number,, an inquiry for the 

 cure of Avhat is called a ringbone, from a corres- 

 pondent Avho had a fine mare troubled with one 

 for something over a year, and the ansAver Avas, 

 that there was no cure for a confirmed ringbone. 



NoAV tAvo years ago this Avinter, I had a fine colt 

 that had a ringbone on each of its hind feet, and 

 Avas so lame some of the time, that I could hardly 

 get it out and in the stable, I did not do anything 

 for it till spring, and they got so bad that the colt 

 had to Avalk upon its heels, with its feet turned 

 up, and I supposed that she was almost worthless. 

 Finally one of my neighbors told me that he had 

 a remedy for a bone spavin, and it Avas said to be 

 a sure cure for ringbone, and wished me to try it 



