The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-10


made on Thursday in crossing and re-
crossing this locality showed about sew
enteen feet at one point, rapidly shelving
to deep water. Between this shoal and
the mouth, however, there is thirty five
and forty feet of water.
Capt. Eads and Mr.. Bayley express
the opinion that the westward current of
the gulf crossing the strong fresh water
current from the jetties will defect un-
derneath the latter and tend to produce
a great depth directly at the mouth
". o. Picayune.
THE COST OF CORN And OTIS.
At recent meeting of the Lenawee
Junction (Michigan) Farmers club, re-
ported in the Michigan Farmer, the com
mittee which had been appointed to de-
termine whether it was profitable to raise
corn, made their report.
Mr.. NJ. Davis, one of the committee,
said his crop turned out about one hun
dred bushels to the acre. The cost of one
acre was SIS, and he had placed the
value of corn at $25, and the stalks at
S., or the receipts at $50, making the
profits So on the acre. This estimate
had been made on the work as though
there were only one acre in the piece,
which, of course, raised the expense
higher in proportion than if it had been
a larger field.
President Sayles, being another men,
Der OF the committee, had made his esti-
mates as follows: Hired it all done by
the month, but had charged by the day
against the field. The average days
work in blowing one field of stubble
ground was two acres, and the charges
for it SO, or $l.5O per acre. The harrow
ing was done at ten acres per day, and
with the same price for man and team,
would be thirty cents for once over, or
sixty cents for twice over the ground
which was done. The marking cost thirty
cents per acre. He planted six acres per
day with corn planter, which he called
$3.50 per day, or twenty-five cents per
acre, for planting, and charged twenty
cents per acre for the seed. He used a
two-horse cultivator for all the cultivat-
ing, and averaged through the season
eight acres per day, which, at So per day
and four times over the ground, makes a
cost of sl.5O per acre for cultivating.
He paid 81 Is per acre for cutting up
the corn, and five cents per bushel for
husking, or $3.50 per day, and the draw
ing and cribbing the corn, 81 As per acre
making grand total of $l1.55 as the
cost of the one acre of corn. The corn
yielded ninety bushels per acre, and he
has allowed as credit to the field, two
cents per bundle for the stalks, and got
one hundred and sixty bundles, or a
total of $500 to be deducted from the
cost-$1l.55, which left as the net cost
of the corn in the crib, SS.37 for the
ninety bushels, or 50 5-IS cents per
bushel. He had another piece on sod
ground which he had MANFRED well, for
which he charged the field Sc per acre.
Had charged So per acre for blowing, as
he used three horses narrowing, $1.2O
per acre; marking, thirty cents; seed,
twenty cent planting, twenty-five cents;
cultivating, $3.50; cutting up corn at
$1.25, all the same as received for the
other field; husking at S. per acre, and
cribbing, .$1.sO, making a total cost of
$2O.5O per acre of one hundred and twenty
bushels, the actual yield seventeen and
one-fourth cents per bushel- He replied
to question that his system of farming
was to allow no weeds to go to seed and,
of course, he had less cultivating to do
on that account. He had, however, neg
lected to charge to the field its proper
ton of the taxes on the farm and its in
terest on its money value.
The committee on the oat crop were
then called on for their report. c. c.
Whitmarsh first made report on his
crop, Just as he had done the work. The
ground-twenty acres--had been pre-
pared for wheat the day before, and he
only used the cultivator The account
stood az fellows.