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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



8,000 pounds, or 133^ bushels the half acre. 



The half acre on which my St. Helena potatoes grew, is a 

 muck-meadow, very cold, drained six years ago. The crop of 

 1857-58, was grass of very poor quality, without manure. It 

 was ploughed once, June 11, about eight inches deep ; harrowed 

 once, furrowed, manured with eight loads, spread after plough- 

 ing, and ashes in the hill ; planted June 11, with five bushels 

 potatoes, cut, three pieces per hill, thirty hills per square rod ; 

 hoed once and harvested October 5. 



Cost of ploughing, 



Furrowing and applying ashes, 



Manure, 



A-lies, 



Seed, . 



Planting, 



Hoeing, 



Harvesting, . 



Total, . 



Produce, as estimated by the committee, October 3, 98| 

 pounds per square rod ; equal to 7,880 pounds, or 131.] bushels 

 to the half acre. 



Statement of John Bropks, Jr. 



Carrots. — The eighth acre on which my carrots grew, is 

 wet, with a clay subsoil. The crop of 1857 was carrots, with 

 two and a half loads manure, and twelve and a half pounds 



