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Cost: Plowing, $2; harrowing and rolling, $1.50, . $3 50 



Harvesting, $1.50; threshing, $3.50; seed, $2.50, 7 50 



$11 00 

 Value : 50 bushels, 50c., . . . $25 00 



1| tons straw, . . . 10 00 



$35 00 



Many of the other statements would have been of great interest 

 had they not been deficient in some important particulars, the omis- 

 sion of which seems to be purely accidental or resulting from lack 

 of care in their preparation. There is reason to believe that some 

 of the competing crops which were unsuccessful in obtaining a pre- 

 mium, were larger and finer than some of those which did obtain one. 



STATEMENTS ON ROOTS AND FORAGE. 



Potatoes. 



Elijah Page of Orono, obtained first premium on crop of potatoes 

 grown on one acre of dark colored sandy loam, previously in grass ; 

 plowed ten inches deep after spreading fourteen loads of manure. 

 Planted last of April in hills two feet apart, rows two and one-half 

 feet, using ten bushels of "Orono" potatoes for seed. Cultivated 

 twice and hoed once ; dug 20th September. Crop, three hundred 

 and forty bushels of sorted and ten bushels of small. Expense 

 stated at $41.50, and value of crop $183.60. 



E. F. Crane, second premium on three hundred and twenty bushels 

 of "Orono" potatoes, grown on an acre of light gravelly soil; in 

 grass ; plowed eight inches, using four cords of light strawy ma- 

 nure, worth $1.50 per cord; twelve bushels small potatoes for seed, 

 one in a hill. Planted last of April ; dug last of October. 



Expense : Plowing, $3 ; harrowing and furrowing, $1.60, 

 4 cords manure, $1.50, 

 Planting, $2 ; hoeing twice, $5, 

 Cultivating once, $1.50; digging, $10, 



(Seed ?) Whole expense, . 

 Value of crop at 50c. per bushel, 



