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Benjamin R. Stevens, third premium on one hundred and eight 

 bushels of "Foot" potatoes, and nine bushels of marrowfat peas, 

 grown on an acre of light sandy loam ; in grass and plowed nine 

 inches ; harrowed once ; a third of a shovelfull of yard manure 

 and a tea spoonful of plaster applied to each hill. 



T. G. Rich of Hampden, obtained premium on a crop of potatoes 

 grown on eighteen acres of clayey loam, light and friable if well 

 managed ; mostly in potatoes last year. Plowed eight inches deep ; 

 manured variously ; part old and part new ; some spread and some 

 in hill ; where spread and harrowed in they rotted less than when 

 put in the hill. " The nearer the potatoes were planted on top of 

 the ground and more oval the hill, the less they rotted." The seed 

 partly early blues but principally Jackson's ; "cut fine and dried 

 in plaster — Jackson's should be cut very fine." Planted in hills — 

 one piece in a hill ; five bushels seed per acre ; three feet between 

 rows; twelve to fifteen inches between hills. Planted 15th to 27th 

 May; cultivated once, hoed once; dug 15th August to 20th Sep- 

 tember. Yield, 4,000 bushels; saved 2,500 bushels sound; average 

 yield over 200 bushels per acre. Cost of cultivation, about $15 

 per acre ; manure 1520 per acre, half to be charged to the present 

 crop. Average price, 50c. per bushel. 



E. C. Crane of Kenduskeag, (under sixteen years of age,) ob- 

 tained premium on forty bushels of potatoes grown on one-eighth of 

 an acre of gravelly soil, plowed up from the sod in the fall, and 

 having three-fourths of a cord of strawy manure applied next 

 spring, and the soil worked about five inches deep. 



RuTA Bag AS. 



Nourse & Straw of Orrington, obtained first premium on half 

 acre of ruta bagas grown on a rocky clayey loam — old mowing 

 field. Manured with light coat of stable manure and some guano. 

 Crop, 400 bushels on half acre. 



