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harrowed it some five or six times before planting. Spread on 

 thirty-two loads of baru yard manure before second plowing. 

 Put in the hill fourteen loads of hog and slaughter house ma- 

 nure and dropped on this six bushels of a mixture composed of 

 plaster, lime and ashes ; planted in hills four feet apart each 

 way, and hoed twice ; put of the before named mixture, eight 

 bushels on the hills before hoeing the second time. Cut it up 

 by the roots between the 25th and 30th of September. Pro- 

 duce of one acre, seventy-seven and a half bushels of corn. 

 No statement of cost of production or value of crop. 



David S. Stevens cultivated one-fourth of an acre of carrots 

 on a sandy soil. This was the third crop from the same piece. 

 It was manured with seven loads of compost and fifty bushels 

 of leached ashes. The soil was worked to the depth of ten 

 inches. The variety was the common orange carrot. The 

 manure was plowed in, seed sown with machine, in drills about 

 fifteen inches apart, and weeded with hoe and hands. Produce, 

 four thousand nine hundred and seventy pounds on one fourth 

 of an acre. Crop damaged by rust. 



C. H. Webster grew three hundred and fifty-eight pounds of 

 Marrow squashes from one hill. Soil clayey, worked two feet 

 deep, and three barrows of compost added. Selected the three 

 best vines to remain. 



Samuel Chadbourne claimed a premium on ruta bagas culti- 

 vated on a piece of land where the same crop was grown the 

 year before. He applied two cords of green manure to the 

 land, which manured eighty-eight rods. Produce, sixteen thou- 

 sand and twenty pounds, or two hundred and sixty-seven 

 bushels. 



Expense; plowing, myself, oxen and plow, one-half day, $1 25 



Harrowing, ...... 50 



Manuring, two hands and oxen, one-half day, . 1 50 



Planting, two days' work, . . . * . 2 00 



Hoeing, five days' work, . . . . 5 00 



Harvesting, four days work, . . . . 4 00 



$14 25 



267 bushels of turnips at 20 cents, $53 40 



Profit, ...... $39 15 



