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twenty-five cents per bushel. Straw twenty-five dollars per 

 ton. 



Oats. — Common State, Norway and Surprise. Sowed as 

 soon as ground will admit, late sowed oats are usually very 

 light. Number of acres by me four, in neighborhood thirty- 

 five. Average j)roduct per acre twenty-two bushels. Cost 

 eight dollars per acre. Value fifty-five to sixty cents. Straw 

 fifteen dollars per ton for feed. Common State have given 

 the greatest satisfaction this year. 



Corn. — Different varieties mixed, viz; Large Yellow, Small 

 Yellow, Cap and White Cap. Planted upon sward and after 

 potatoes and buckwheat. Manure usually plowed in upon old 

 ground from twenty to thirty loads per acre, and manured in 

 the hill with half shovel of well rotted manure, or with phos- 

 phate in hill, four to five hundred pounds per acre. Upon 

 swardland fine manure harrowed in, and usually planted 

 with phosphate or compost in hill. Rows three and a half 

 feet apart, distance three feet in the row, large kinds require 

 more, and small kinds less distance. Usually cultivated or 

 hoed but twice. Mostly cut from the hill to cure in shocks, — 

 which mode I prefer to cutting stalks — making sounder and 

 heavier corn. By myself four acres, in neighborhood thirty 

 acres. Average product per acre twenty-five bushels. Cost 

 seventy-five cents per bushel. Feed and market value ninety- 

 five cents per bushel. 



Buckivheat. — Sowed upon sward land with fertilizers, yield 

 fifteen to twenty bushels per acre. 



Potatoes. — Early Rose. The culture of all kinds of pota- 

 toes are nearly alike, although I am satisfied that the Early 

 Rose requires much richer ground than any other kind, 

 usually planted upon old ground frequently with nothing but 

 fertilizer in hill, I usually get fair potatoes in this way. The 

 present season I planted but two kinds. Early Rose after 

 tobacco with a spoonful of Bradley's X. L. Phosphate in hill. 

 Two hundred and five bushels from seven-eighths of an acre. 

 Cost twenty-five cents per bushel, market value fifty cents per 

 bushel. Prince Alberts on very light soil, treatment same as 

 Rose, cost twenty-two cents per bushel, eighty busjiels on 

 three-fourths of acre. 



