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Wheat. 



Interest on one acre of land (value per acre |200) $14 00 



Manuring the same 7 00 



Plowing, sowing, and harrowing the same 5 00 



2 bushels seed at $1.25 2 50 



Harvesting and storing _ 3 00 



Threshing and cleaning 25 bushels at 8 t?ents per bushel. 2 00 



Dr ..$33 50 



Credit. 



25 bnshels of wheat at $1.25 per bushel $31 25 



1^ tons straw at $4 per ton 6 00— $37 25 



Net profit _ $3 75 



I would manure with Peruvian guano, sown broadcast.' 

 Prof. Mapes. — The corn crop of the United States last year 

 was estimated at 800,000,000 of bushels. That alone declares 

 the value of the crop. As to the quantity per acre, it is not hard 

 to grow 100 bushels per acre, as I have repeatedly done, upon 

 underdrained and subsoiled ground. In some districts the soak- 

 ing of corn in diluted saltpeter, &c., has been found very bene- 

 ficial. In others it is not advantageous. I plow the surface 

 deeply, and furrow with a subsoil plow, with a pair of stout oxen, 

 17 inches deep, in rows or checks, and drop with a machine. I 

 never use a hoe — I never hill up corn — it makes it weaker and 

 more liable to be blown over. I do not plow my corn, turning 

 up a furrow and turning it away again, but I use a small soil 

 lifter, raising each side of the row. If the plow is sharp it can 

 be used in reverted sod ground. Then I take one of Howe's 

 horse hoes, and shave the soil about two inches deep. This cuts 

 up and combs out the weeds ; one man and mule can do more 

 than fifty men, and do it better. It leaves the soil all so finely 

 pulverized, that weeds can't grow. It is easy to keep the corn 

 crop perfectly free of weeds. As to manure, I put in the drop- 

 per with the corn, one-third of the quantity of super-phosphate 

 that I design to use, mixed largely with some divisor like char- 

 coal or dust or prepared peat. At the first hoeing I add another 

 third of the phosphate, and at the second hoeing the other third, 

 spread around the stalks. I use six hundred pounds of phos- 

 phate per acre. In feeding corn-stalks, they should not only be 



