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near the top, which should be bent over before tying last 

 band to form a kind of cap to prevent rain from running 

 down the centre of stack. Value per stalks for fodder, $15 

 per ton. Average yield corn, 40 bushels ; highest, 75 bush- 

 els. Value per bushel, $1.25. Number of acres in town, 

 200. Have raised eight acres this season. 



Onions, white and yellow. Sowed in drills 16 inches apart 

 on good land well manured with fine rotted compost, say 30 

 loads per acre. Hoed and weeded three or four times. Average 

 yield, 150 bushels per acre; highest, 200. Value per bush- 

 el, $1.00. Acres in town, 40. 



Potatoes ; Early Rose, King of Earlies, Chili, Peerless, 

 Peach Blow. Planted in April, rows 3f feet apart, 16 inches 

 in rows ; plaster or fish guano in the hill. Plowed and hoed as 

 often as once in ten days until the vines fall. Dig in October 

 the late varieties. Average yield, 100 bushels ; highest, 250 

 bushels. Have raised 6 acres. Number of acres in town, 

 800. Value per bushel, 75 cents. 



Tobacco, seed leaf. Plants set in June or July in rows 3^ 

 feet apart, 20 inches in the rows. Fertilizer, guano under the hill ; 

 plow in all the fine manure that you can cover. Hoe and weed, 

 and worm and sucker unti it is ready to cut in August or Sep- 

 tember. Hang on laths until cured. Average yield, 1,500 

 pounds per acre ; highest, 2500 pounds. 



Mangolds, sugar beets and long or Yellowstone turnips yield 

 200 to 1000 bushels per acre, worth 25 cents. No grass or 

 other seeds Taised. 



Wm. S. Babcock, Plainfield. 



I grow on my farm corn, oats, and potatoes. I do not 

 plant to exceed four acres of corn and potatoes each year. 

 Corn yields about 40 bushels per acre, oats about the same, 

 and potatoes, 150 bushels. Rye about here yields from 5 to 

 20 bushels per acre, barley in good seasons about the same as 

 oats, buckwheat produces from 5 to 25 bushels per acre, but 

 I never raise it, or wheat, onions, or tobacco. Where I am to 

 plow for planting I spread on fifteen loads of manure per acre, 



