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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Medium-sized potatoes. Different plats planted with one 

 eye, two ej^es, four eyes, and one-half potatoes. From seed- 

 end and stem-end of potatoes (see table annexed). Planted 

 April 20. 



9. What was the treatment of the soil, and cultivation of 

 the crop to time of harvesting, with the date of each opera- 

 tion? 



May 6, harrowed once ; May 11, bushed once ; May 22, 

 cultivated and hoed ; June 19, cultivated and hoed ; June 

 25, ploughed between the rows, throwing up the dirt on the 

 row, and finishing it off with a hoe, removing all weeds 

 grass, etc. Applied Paris-green May 28, June 8, 19, and 25, 

 using fifty pounds of plaster and three-quarters of a pound 

 of Paris-screen each time. 



10. Time of harvesting? 

 Between Sept. 10 and 25. 



11. Number of bushels of large and small potatoes, all to 

 be measured or weighed at time of harvesting ? 



Large, one hundred and seventy-nine bushels and one- 

 fourth ; small, seventeen bushels and one-fourth. (See ex- 

 planation and table annexed.) 



12. What was the marketable value of the above product 

 at any time prior to Dec. 31, 1880? 



The aurrent price in Greenfield has been fifty cents per 

 bushel. 



13. What was the cost or value oi fertilizers, and its ap- 

 plication ? 



Cost, ten dollars. Application, one dollar. 



14. What was the cost of ploughing and preparing the 

 soil, giving araount of time for team, with price of each ? 



Ploughing and harrowing, eight hours. For team, two 

 dollars ; man, one dollar ; furrowing out rows, fi'fty cents. 



15. What was the cost of planting, and of each opera- 

 tion in cultivation of the crops as above ? 



Dropping seed . • 



Planting 



Harrowinsr 



Bushing 



Cultivating three times 



Hoeing three times 



Paris-green 



Total 818 35 



