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apart, each way. When the corn is about six inches high I cultivate it 
both ways, with a common cultivator, and then with a plow and one 
horse I go through the field, plowing from the hills of corn each way. 
After this I again plow in the same manner, except that in this second 
plowing, I throw the soil towards the corn. I think this process causes 
a much greater yield. The average yield of my corn, which is the Yel¬ 
low Dutton was sixty bushels per acre. The land upon which it was 
grown has had twelve different crops of grain taken from it, and has 
never had any manure applied to it, though it is still a rich soil. It is a 
black sandy loam two or three feet in depth, succeeded by yellow clay 
fifteen feet in depth, and limestone gravel afterwards. As I cut my corn 
before the frost injures it, I think the stalks used for fodder for my cattle 
will pay the expense of the crop, which I estimate at six dollars per acre. 
By this calculation, which I believe to be correct, I have left, after pay¬ 
ment of the expenses, my corn, which is worth fifty cents per bushel. 
“ James T. Walklin.” 
Charles Avery’s Statement : 
*‘I have been in the hop culture thirty years in Hew York and three 
in Wisconsin. I prepare my land in the spring as soon as the frosts will 
permit, plowing deep. I plant my roots, previously cut in pieces, six 
inches in length, one and one-half to two inches deep, eight feet apart 
each way, and put manure, covered with earth, in each hill. 
“ The first year I plant corn among the hops. The next spring, as 
soon as the frost is out of the ground, I dig around the hill permitting 
but little sprouting. I set two poles twenty-four or twenty-five feet long 
to each hill, and train two vines up each pole. If the season is early I 
put up the second set of shoots. From fifty to seventy loads of manure 
is applied to each acre of ground. Good corn soil is the most suitable 
for hop raising. Last year I harvested five acres ; this year I am culti¬ 
vating eleven acres ; six of which are on bottom land, and promising to 
yield an abundant crop. The five acres last year gave me on an average 
one ton of hops per acre, which I consider an ordinary yield with good 
care. The cost of cultivation, I think, is about six cents per pound. 
For drying, I use kilns lined with brick, heated with coal, which I pre¬ 
fer, and giving as I believe a better color and flavor, costing no more than 
.stoves and pipes, which many use. 
