No. 112. J 221 



Estimating the crop of liay at two tons per acre, vvhicli is be- 

 lieved to be less than Ihe actual amount, 



The value of the hay, at §8 per ton, is $10G 00 



Expenses of securing hay at $S per acre, 20 00 



Interest on land at $100 per acre, 46 00 



$66 00 



Total value of the products of six acres and one hun- 

 dred rods, $34§ 75 



Total expenses including interest on land, 113 25 



Nett profits, $235 50 



or per acre, $35.56. ===== 



F. N. TOBEY. 



Potatoes. — Peter Crispell, Jr., 

 Hurley J Ulster Cotinty^ on one acre and ,'/„■ of an acre. 



Ulster County, ss. — Peter Crispell, jr., being duly sworn says> 

 that he raised a crop of potatoes the past season upon land sur- 

 veyed by Edgar B. Newkirk, and that the quantity of potatoes 

 was 554 bushels, measured in baskets which had been measured 

 by a sealed half-bushel ; and that he was assisted by Patrick 

 Seney in harvesting and measuring said crop, and that the state- 

 ment annexed, subscribed by this deponent, as to the manner of 

 cultivation, expense, &:c., is in all respects true to the best of his 

 knowledge and belieJ', and that the sample of the potatoes exhib- 

 ited is a fair sample of the crop, the smaller ones having- been 

 sorted (»ut 



PETER CRISPELL, Ju. 



Sworn l)el'ore me, this 22d i 

 day of Dec. 1852, ] 



Corn's Newkirk, Jr., Justice. 



The croj) previous to tlie potatoes was corn, whicli had beea 

 manured before plantiiii^ with about tliirty-tive loads of barn- 

 yard manure to the acre, and about one hundred and twenty 

 Lusliels of leached ashes to the acre after planting the corn ; no 

 manure was used on the land for the potatoe crop, tlie land was 



