The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

by P. L. Simmonds

	Dollars.	Cents.
Forty bushels, at seventy-five cents.	30	00
Cost	11	62
Gain per acre	18	38

or £3 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
Gain	19	5

or £3 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	16¼
Donesville, Michigan, only	17½
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	87½
Cultivating three times and hoeing	1	00
Husking the hill	1	00
Shelling and cleaning	1	00
	5	82½