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extract from lewis county report. 



selden ives. 



Awarded First Premium. 



Forty-three rods of ground ; previous year in carrots with 18 loads 

 of manure from cow yard, before plowing, produce^260 bushels ; pre- 

 sent year no manure used ; plowed about the last of May, and tho- 

 roughly harrowed and rolled first week in June ; three quarters pound 

 seed sowed immediately with drill harrow 18 inches apart. As soon 

 as the crop was up, cleaned with hoe between the rows — one week 

 after weeded carefully, without thinning the plants, three weeks after, 

 again hoed crop; harvested about the first of November. 



Expenses and Profit of Crop. 



330 bushels by actual measurement, at 1 s $41 25 



Expense quarter day plowing at $1 50, $0 38 



" Harrowing and rolling, 38 



" Planting quarter day at 6 s 19 



" Six and half days weeding and hoeing at 6 s. 4 50 



" Six and half days harvesting, 4 50 



" Team work, at 6 s 75 



10 70 



Nett profit 43 rods ground, $30 55 



Or equal to $114 per acre. 



Mr. Ives says the plants were too thick in places, and too thin in 

 others ; had the crop been attended to and equalized in this respect, 

 a much larger product would have been obtained. 



Turin. 



A. H. BUCK. 



Awarded Second Premium. 



Ground — old pasture plowed latter part of May, about seven in- 

 ches deep without manure ; rolled and well harrowed ; planted in 

 rows twenty inches apart ; hoed three times. 



Product from quarter acre 266 bushels 1 s $33 25 



Expense plowing and harrowing, $0 75 



" Hoeing, 2 00 



" Harvesting, 50 



3 25 



Profit quarter acre ...* $30 00 



Lowville. 



