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a hundred and twenty dollars. The cost of marketing is not 

 very high ; but I have not credited any thing used in my 

 own family, which would make quite a difference. Also all 

 of the manure was charged to the crop; while a portion 

 should have been credited to the land, for the hay, of which 

 I took off a crop consecutively for seven years before I 

 ploughed it again. Also the whole expense of under-drain- 

 ing, and ninety dollars for pear and apple trees, are charged 

 to the piece, which does not seem just, as the benefits to be 

 derived from these improvements are sure to continue for 

 many years. Hence I think it proper to credit to the piece, 

 as the real improvement upon it from its condition at first, 

 as follows : at least one-third of the manure, or a hundred 

 and fifty dollars; next the trees, or ninety dollars; the 

 drains, or a hundred and fifty dollars, — added to the first 

 estimated worth of the land, a hundred and twenty dollars, 

 gives an aggregate value of five hundred and ten dollars, 

 which can only be considered a low appraisal of its present 

 value, as it is practically worth two hundred dollars per acre, 

 or a total of six hundred for the piece, showing a gam of four 

 hundred and eighty dollars. I will mention one other experi- 

 ment of 1879, when crops sold low enough to please any one. 



I mowed four acres of land June 19, 1879, and put into the 

 barn, the 20th, about three tons of hay, and then ploughed 

 on the 22d, 23d, 24th, and 25th, and harrowed an acre and a 

 quarter on the 25th. 



On a piece of ninety rods I put four cords of manure in 

 the hill, and planted to cucumbers. 



On the balance of the acre and a quarter I put three 

 hundred pounds Stockbridge's Phosphate, and sowed to ruta- 

 bagas, sixteen inches apart. On one acre I put twenty-two 

 dollars' worth of Stockbridge's Fertilizer, and planted to 

 sweet and pop corn, which were both nearly killed by 

 frost. The balance of the land I harrowed, and the last of 

 July set to cabbages, using three hundred pounds of Coe's 

 Phosphate, six barrels wood-ashes, five bags refuse salt, and 

 two cords stable-manure. The manure with the phosphate 

 was put into the hill ; the salt was harrowed in ; and the 

 ashes put around the plants. 



