WEST PENOBSCOT SOCIETY. 



345 



Potatoes. E. F. Crane of Kenduskeag, applied for premium 

 on a crop of Orono or Reed potatoes, grown on a light gravelly 

 loam of a brown color ; the land was in grass the previous year ; 

 plowed eight inches deep ; applied four cords of strawy manure ; har- 

 rowed and furrowed; on the last of April, planted twelve bushels 

 in hills about one and one-half feet, and the rows three feet apart; 

 cultivated once and hoed twice ; harvested on the last of October, 

 three hundred and twenty bushels. 



Cost of Crop. 

 Plowing, harrowing and , 



furrowing, $4 50 



Manure, planting, hoeing, 13 00 

 Cultivating and gathering, 11 50 



$29 00 



Value of Crop. 

 820 bushels at 50c., $160 00 

 Cost, 29 00 



Profit, 



$131 00 



Matthew Ritchie of East Corinth, applied for premium on a crop of 

 potatoes, grown on a loam of dark color and light and friable in 

 nature, underlaid by a slaty subsoil ; grass was grown upon the 

 land the previous year ; on the land, while in grass, ten cords of 

 strawy manure were spread and plowed under in the spring ; the land 

 ivas planted the middle of May, three feet between the rows and 

 two feet between the hills ; the variety of potato was Jackson ; 

 hoed them once and applied about one bushel of plaster ; harvested 

 on the first of October ; about seventy bushels out of two hundred 

 and seventy-three bushels were unfit for market on account of rot. 



Cost of crop. 

 Manure, 

 Plowing, 



Harrowing and planting. 

 Hoeing and plaster. 

 Harvesting, 

 Seed, small and worth, 



Wo 

 4 

 3 

 8 

 5 

 5 



00 

 00 



00 

 50 

 00 

 00 



$85 50 



Value of crop. 



203 bushels at 45 cts. 

 Cost, 



$91 85 

 35 50 



Profit, 



^55 85 



Crosby Clements of Kenduskeag, obtained premium on one-half 

 acre of Orono potatoes, grown on sandy loam of a dark color ; bar- 

 ley was raised on the land the previous year ; plowed six inches 

 deep and harrov/ed and applied one-half a shovelful of barn-yard 



