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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Cr. 



By 288 bushels, at 30 cts. 



Profit, 



$86 40 

 $48 50 



The piece contains half an acre. I have reckoned the crop at 

 thirty cents a bushel, or twelve dollars a ton, for which I have 

 sold several tons — reckoning forty bushels to the ton, and fifty 

 pounds to the bushel. Land measured by Deacon Richards. 



Potatoes. — The piece of ground upon which my potatoes 

 were raised is of a sandy soil, and not in a high state of culti- 

 vation. In 1854 there was corn grown on the piece. In 1852 

 the ground was covered with blue clay, being drawn in the win- 

 ter, giving it a chance to freeze and thaw, which lessens the dif- 

 ficulty of getting it pulverized with the soil. The' land was 

 ploughed eight inches deep, the last day of April ; furrows were 

 then turned, and filled with compost; after the potatoes were 

 dropped, these furrows were turned back, saving at least three- 

 fourths the labor of planting in the usual manner. The piece 

 contained one hundred and seventy-two rods, from which I took 

 two hundred and forty-four bushels, calling sixty pounds to the 

 bushel. Salt and ashes were put in the hill. The variety, the 

 peach blow. Land measured by Deacon P. Richards. 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing, $2 ; furrowing and manuring, $2, 

 Compost, . . . ■ . 



Seed, (small potatoes,) 8 bushels. 

 Planting, 75 cts. ; hoeing, three times, $5, 

 Gathering, 16 days' work, 

 Taxes and interest, .... 



Or. 



By 2L4 bush, of table potatoes, at 50 cts. 

 " ^0 bush, of small potatoes, at 20 cts. 



Profit, 



$71 25 



