e 18 38

or L3 13s. 6d. British money profit per acre.

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 produce was
fifty bushels, so that it stood thus:--

Dollars. Cents.
Fifty bushels, at seventy-five cents 37 50
Cost 18 25
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Gain 19 5

or L3 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
Donesville, 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. 0 45
One ploughing sward, cover or stubble 1 00
Harrowing, furrowing, seed, and planting 0 871/2
Cultivating three times and hoeing 1 00
Husking the hill 1 00
Shelling and cleaning 1 00
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5 821/2

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 disgracefully upon
the careless system adopted there, as under such treatment 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 gr