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Samuel Cbadbourn sowed one acre of Scotch Fyfe wheat, on 

 a loam, ash colored, light and friable, two feet deep, stony, and 

 underlaid by a hard gravelly subsoil. Corn was grown on the 

 land tlie year previous. It was plowed eight inches deep : was 

 sowed May 10th, broadcast, two bushels of seed per acre, and 

 harvested August 23d: the produce sixteen and a half bush- 

 els, weighing nine hundred and fifty-seven pounds, and the 

 straw one and one-fourth tons. 



Value of crop, ..... $33 00 

 Expense, as stated, . . . . $8 00 



Profit, . . . . . $25 00 



F. S. Mitchell planted one acre of potatoes, on a loam that 

 is light and friable, of dark color, and underlaid by a hard and 

 gravelly subsoil. The year before, it was sown to oats on a 

 sod. The variety, " Long Reds." Planted 10th of June, in 

 hills three feet each way ; ten bushels of seed to the acre ; 

 hoed once, and applied no manure. They were harvested in 

 October, and produced one hundred and twenty-five bushels per 

 acre. No statement of cost or value of crop. 



Tristram Hill grew a crop of " Long Red " potatoes, on a 

 loam, light and friable, dark color and stony, on a hard sub- 

 soil. It was in grass the previous year. He manured with ten 

 loads of green manure, and planted May 15th, three feet be- 

 tween the rows, and two feet between the hills, with twelve 

 bushels of seed to the acre. Hoed once, and harvested Novem- 

 ber 1st. Produce, one hundred and ninety-one bushels, weigh- 

 ing eleven thousand four hundred and sixty pounds. 



Plowing, . . . . . . $5 00 



Planting, . . . . . . 3 00 



Hoeing, . . . . . . ■ 3 00 



Harvesting, . . . . . 4 00 



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$15 00 

 191 bushels, 1G| cts., . . . $31 83 



Profit, . . . . . $16 8 



Peter Garcelon asked a premium on a crop of corn grown on 



a piece of land planted to potatoes the previous year. Plowed 



twice, one foot deep the first time, and six inches the next; 



