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cheapest way to harvest corn and renders the fodder of most 

 value. Produce one hundred and fifty-three bushels of ears." 

 Plowing, $1 50 



'a) 



Manure, 



Planting, 



Hoeing, 



Cutting up and shocking, 



Carting in and husking, 



16 00 



2 50 



4 00 

 2 00 



5 00 



Corn, at 67 cents, 



Fodder, . . . . 



Profit, .... 



$61 00 



Crosby Clements grew potatoes on a sandy loam, light and 

 friable, and underlaid with an open subsoil. They were planted 

 on a sod, plowed five or six inches deep, and manured with two 

 and a half cords of stable manure. Planted the first week 

 in May, in rows three feet apart, the hills twenty inches apart ; 

 hoed once, and one and a half bushels of plaster applied. 

 Harvested in September; the produce, one hundred and sixty- 

 nine bushels, weighing ten thousand one hundred and forty 

 pounds. 



Yakie of crop, . . . . . $84 50 



Cost of crop, . . . . • . 30 00 



Profit, . . . . . $54 50 



Asa Shaw asked for premium on a piece of barley. The soil 

 a light, yellow loam, twelve inches deep, underlaid by a hard 

 subsoil. It grew a crop of hops the previous year, and no ma- 

 nure was applied the present year. The barley was of the two 

 rowed variety, sowed June 10th, and with three and a half 

 bushels of seed to one hundred and forty-eight square rods, and 

 harvested the last of August. Produce, twenty-five bushels, 

 and one ton of straw. 

 Value of crop, . . . . . $18 75 



