142 N. H. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



rods ; soil, sandy loam. It was broken up in the fall of 

 1854, and, the following spring, I carted on twenty-five loads 

 of old fine compost manure composed of more than one 

 half swamp muck ; spread and harrowed in with a heavy 

 harrow, and planted with corn ; yield, about one hundred 

 and twenty bushels. In April, I carted on twenty-six loads 

 of green manure from the barn cellar, and ploughed it 

 under with the Michigan plow, nine or ten inches deep, 

 then harrowed, and furrowed little less than three feet 

 apart between the rows, and dropped Avhole potatoes about 

 the size of a hen's egg, eighteen inches apart in the rows, 

 and covered one half with the horse hoe, and the other 

 half with the hand hoc. The potatoes came up as well 

 that were covered with the horse as the others ; they were 

 planted the very first of May; were hoed twice in June, 

 after going through with the horse hoe. I went through 

 the rows again in August, and cut up the weeds. The po- 

 tatoes were harvested the first of October, and measured 

 two hundred and fifty-six bushels. The expense of raising 

 the potatoes, is as follows, viz : 



Carting manure. 



Plowing, harrowing and furrowing, 



Planting, 



Cultivating and hoeing, 



Harvesting, 



Seed, twenty-two bushels wliite Chcnangoes, 



^Manure, twenty-six loads, $2 per load, 



Interest on land, and taxes, 



Total, $90 25 



The value of the crop is as follows, viz: 



200 bu. large potatoes at 80 cts. per bushel, 



5G " small " " 25 " '•' « 

 Half of the manure unspent, 



$200 00 



