MAINE STATE SOCIETY. 



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Dr. 



Crop of Potatoes. 



Cr. 



To Plowing once, h day, . 

 Seven curds barnyard manure, . 

 Carting and applying the same. 

 Harrowing, .... 



Furrowing and Planting, . . 

 Cultivating twice and Hoeing twice, 



five days, .... 

 Other cultivation and weeding. 

 Harvesting, .... 

 Twelve bushels Seed, 

 Interest on Land, 



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20 



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 50 

 60 



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 50 

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$48 50 



00 



By 3G4 bushels at 25 cts., . $91 



Manure left in soil for future crops, 



estimated at, • . . 10 00 



Deduct cost, 



$101 00 

 48 50 



Profit, 



$52 50 



Second premium on crop of potatoes to C. H. Durrell. Paris. 



Statement : 



" My crop, consisting of 325 bushels of 60 pounds to the bushel, 

 was grown on 1 acre. The soil upon which it grew was a fine 

 loamy soil of a brownish color, depth about 16 inches ; was ploughed 

 about 8 inches deep ; some parts of it a little ledgy. In 1858 the 

 ground was broken up and planted to corn, with a light coat of 

 manure. In 1859 I sowed it to wheat, without any manure. In 

 1860 I spread on 13 loads of manure from the barn windows, and 

 put eight loads of old manure in the hill, and planted my potatoes 

 the 19th of May ; planted 13 bushels of the white Laplands ; hoed 

 them once the 20th of June ; duo; middle of October. 



Rifta Ba<ras. First premium on half an acre to Obadiah Whit- 

 tier, Vienna. Statement : 



" My crop, consisting of 345 bushels of 60 pounds to the bushel, 

 was grown on 80 rods, being at the rate of 690 bushels to the acre. 

 The soil upon which it grew was heavy loam, moderately stony. 

 The ground had been mowed ten years, during which time it had 

 received no dressing of any kind, and had become so bound out 

 that it did not cut one half a ton to the acre. The soil is about 12 

 inches deep, rather stiff; the subsoil is a clay pan of such a texture 

 as does not admit the free passage of water. 



I applied two cords of green manure spread on the sward, and 

 turned under, then two cords more, same kind, to tlie furrow, and 

 harrowed in. I furrowed three feet apart, and applied three cords 

 manure to the hill, three feet from centre to centre. Manure ap- 

 plied to the hill manufactured by the Bommer method. I then level 

 with a hoe or the foot, spreading it on the furrow so as to admit of 

 two hills in one dropped ten inches apart, so the hoe will work be- 

 tween them. V/hen thinned leave two or three in the hill. I plant 

 the 10th of June. I applied two bushels plaster, and two cwt. 

 bone meal. 



