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Expense and profit of half an acre. 



Produce : 198 bushels potatoes at 2 s. per bushel $49 50 



Eight loads manure, 8 00 



Drawing and spreading same, 2 00 



Plowing $1 50 per acre, 50 



Harrowing, 75 



Planting and cutting potatoes, 1 30 



Hoeing twice, 1 50 



Harvesting, 1 50 



$15 00 

 Profit from half an acre, 34 50 



$49 50 



EXTRACTS FROM ONEIDA COUNTY REPORT. 

 WILLIAM C. BURRITT. 



Awarded first premium for quality. 



Soil, mucky ; the previous crop was grass ; plowed once only to the 

 depth of five inches ; planted at the rate of eight bushels per acre, on 

 the 10th of May ; dug 312 by measure, and 328* * by weight ; the po- 

 tatoes were Pinkeyes. 



Expense and profit of crop. 



Produce, 312 bushels of potatoes, $11700 



Expense, 8 bushels of seed, $2 00 



1 day plowing, 2 00 



\ day harrowing, 1 00 



2 days' planting, 1 50 



4 days' hoeing, 2 00 



6 days' harvesting, 4 50 



Interest on land at 7 per cent, 2 80 



16 80 



Profit on one acre of potatoes, $100 20 



Paris ^ Oneida county. 



HENRY B. BARTLETT. 



Awarded second premium for quantity. 



Soil, sandy loam ; previous crop, potatoes for two years ; plowed 

 once to a depth of six or eight inches ; used twelve bushels of seed on 



