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XEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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one acre with Button, ''orn. 



It will be seen that the product is 84J bushels 

 to the acre, and the cost of raising, 50 cents per 

 bushel. Albert Fearing. 



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Average cost per acre, $70,56. 



Table of cost of corn per bushel, including all 

 the manure ; cost per bushel, deducting one-fourth 

 part of manure ; also the labor expended in rais- 

 inar an acre : 



Average of the above five crops per acre, 94 3-5 

 bushels ; do. cost of corn, including all the ma- 

 nure, 75 cents 5 mills ; do. cost of corn, deducting 

 i manure, 64 cents 1 mill ; do. cost of manure and 

 fertilizer per acre, -$43,80 ; do. cost of labor per 

 acre, $19,84. 



By the preceding table, it will be seen that the 

 average cost of the premium crops was $70,56 per 

 acre; cost of Mr. Fearing's, $65,18 per acre. 



Average cost of corn in the premium crops, in- 

 cluding all the manure per bushel, 75 cts. 5 mills ; 

 cost of Mr. Fearing's, 77 cents 5 mills. 



Average cost premium crops, deducting i ma- 

 nure, 64 cents 1 mill ; cost of Mr. Fearing's, 65 

 cents 9 mills. 



Average cost of manure and fertilizer premium 

 crops per acre, $43,80 ; cost of Mr. Fearing, per 

 acre, $39,16. 



Average cost of labor premium crops per acre, 

 $19,84 ; cost of Mr. Fearing's, $19,52. 



We take pleasure in giving so much of a report 

 that seems to have been drawn from facts, as well 

 established 4s they can be, short of an expensive 

 and tedious process. It will be gratifying to most 

 farmers. The committee, Messrs. Calkb Gill, 

 Benjamin Jones and Warren A. Hkk.'^ey, are 

 gent)«emen of accuracy and good judgment, and 

 gave the matter all that care and attention which 

 the importance of the subject demanded. 



AN HOUR WITH THE LITHOGRAPHERS. 



The art of printing has been wonderfully pro- 

 gressing witliin the last eight or ten years. Print- 

 ing in colors has now become so perfect that it al- 

 most rivals the works of genius upon canvas. 

 The beautiful posters, railway and other cards 

 which may be seen in every part of the country, 

 at the stations and common rooms of hotels, are 

 not executed by the common processes of setting 

 type, but are sketched upon stone and printed in 

 different colors. 



We were highly gratified a few days since, in 

 passing through the rooms of Messrs. L. Prang &" 

 Co., 157 Washington Street, Boston, and in wit- 

 nessing the e.Klent of their business, and the great 

 beauty and exquisite finish of some of their work. 

 We are not sufficiently acquainted with the tech- 

 nical terms of their art to give a clear description 

 of what we saw. The first room which we en- 

 tered was the sales-room, where a sample of all 

 the work which they had done might be seen, and 

 where large quantities of their publications, such 

 as maps, portraits of distinguished persons and a 

 variety of pictures, were for sale. The second, 

 was a sort of proof-room, where we were invited 

 to look at some sheets just ready "to go to press." 

 The next was the "Arlist's-Room." On a table 

 before one of the number present stood a row of 

 highly ornamental and beautiful lamps, of various 

 devices and patterns, which the artist was trans- 

 ferring to the stone that lay upon his desk. The 

 work seemed to us a slow and "head-achy" one, 

 but every touch of the pencil of the calm and pa- 

 tient operator gave form and beauty to liis work. 

 Others were engraving upon copper, or engaged 

 in some work applicable to their particular de- 

 partment. In the next room, eighteen presses 

 were employed in getting impressions of the 

 sketches of the artists. 



The first press was throwing off a series of de- 

 lightful little pictures of rural scenes, of play, of 

 mischief in j)antry or parlor, or of the emotions, 

 for children. These were in four or fii-e different 



