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Cost of crop, . . . . . $8 50 



Profit, . . . . • $10 25 



Asa Shaw grew a crop of Orange carrots, on a liglit, yellow 

 loam, twelve inches deep, of granite formation. Potatoes were 

 produced on it the previous year; plowed ten inches deep, and 

 four cart-loads of manure applied to one eightli of an acre. It 

 was sown iu drills two feet apart, June 1st, and cultivated with 

 the hoe. Harvested in October; the produce, eighty-eight 

 bushels. 



Yalue of crop, ..... $26 00 

 Oost of crop, . . . . . 5 00 



Isaiah Avery produced a crop of corn, on a sandy loam, light 

 and friable, the stones in which are a mixture of granite and 

 slate. It was planted on a sod, plowed six inches deep, to 

 which was applied thirty loads of barn-yard manure and muck; 

 was planted May 20th, three and a half feet between the 

 rows, and three feet between the hills. Hoed twice, and eight 

 bushels of ashes applied as a top-dressing. Harvested Octo- 

 ber 8th. Produce, sixty bushels, weighing three thousand three 

 hundred pounds. 



Yalue of crop, ..... $60 00 

 Cost of crop, . . . . . 17 00 



Profit, $43 00 



