36 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTUEE. 



Cr. 



By SOO bushels potatoes, at $1, . . . . $300 00 

 75 bushels small potatoes, at 50 cents, . . 37 50 



$337 50 



Thus it appears that the crop of potatoes paid for itself, paid 

 for putting- the land into grass, and the interest on $250 an 

 acre besides. It was a very good crop of potatoes, and the 

 market price, as will be recollected by every body who bought 

 or sold, was extravagantly high. The experiment was, there- 

 fore, made under the most favorable circumstances. 



Two and two-thirds acres meadow in account : — 



Dr. 

 1855 — To 3 cwt. guano, ...... 



3 cwt. super-phosphate, .... 



* Clover seed, 



Labor, ....... 



Or. 

 By 3^ tons hay, ....... 



Value of after-grass, ..... 



$73 00 



Thus it appears that the crop of grass paid for itself, for cut- 

 ting and curing, and the interest on $250 an acre besides. I 

 have stated the quantity of hay at one and a quarter tons per 

 acre, because 1 did not weigh it, and mean to be below rather 

 than above the true weight. Nobody who saw it estimated it 

 at less than a ton and a half to the acre, and many practiced 

 eyes rated it higher. You yourselves saw it but £f. short time 

 before it was cut, and can bear witness whether I have over or 

 underrated it. 



I, perhaps, owe you an apology for stating my mode of plant- 

 ing potatoes with so much particularity. I have done it because 

 I have found that all farmers are not familiar with it. If I 

 mistake not, some members of the committee had never seen 

 potatoes so planted until they saw them upon my meadow. 



