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bushels of seed. Harvested fifty-two bushels of oats on the 28th of 

 August. 



Barley. Lewis B. Swett of Paris, applied for premium on a 

 crop of "two rowed" barley, grown on two acres of light loam on 

 which corn had been raised the year before. Plowed about eight 

 inches deep, and sowed broadcast one and a half bushel. Yield, 

 twenty-three bushels per acre. Cost of culture, $10.25 per acre. 



Potatoes. P. T. Hathaway states that he grew " California" 

 potatoes on newly cleared land ; soil a yellowish sandy loam ; had 

 yielded two previous crops of oats ; never manured ; plowed six 

 inches deep ; planted last day of April in rows three feet apart and 

 hills one and a half feet ; three bushels of seed on half an acre ; 

 cultivated once and hoed once ; dug Oct. 5th ; one hundred eighty- 

 two and one-half bushels, or at rate of three hundred and sixty-five 

 bushels per acre. Cost of crop on half an acre, $14.00. 



David B. Haskell states that he grew one hundred and seventy 

 bushels of " Christie" potatoes per acre, using eleven bushels of 

 seed, on fine, light, yellowish loam; broken up two years ago; 

 sowed last year to oats without manure ; this year plowed six inches ; 

 manured with twenty loads per acre of strawy manure; planted 

 May 18th ; "cultivated and hoed, then plowed and hilled;" dug 

 September 29th. 



Bartimeus Dunham grew one hundred and sixty-eight bushels on 

 one acre and thirty-five square rods, of " State of Maine" and 

 " White Lapland" potatoes. The soil a fine loamy granite soil on a 

 hard gravelly subsoil; has been in pasture many years; plowed eight 

 inches ; cultivated and harrowed ; the only manure used was two 

 and one-half bushels gypsum and three bushels of ashes, put in the 

 hills. Cost of the crop, $27.25 — value of the same, $84.00 — 

 profit, $58.75. 



Several- statements of Mr. Forbes are herewith appended : 

 Carrots. The soil on which the crop of carrots grew which I 

 present for premium, is a yellow loam, about eighteen inches deep, 

 and abounds in moderate sized granite boulders and not a large 

 quantity of small stones of the same kind. It is very light and 

 friable, and about two feet to the impervious subsoil. It has been 



