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AVERAGE PER STATUTE ACRE. 
lbs. lbs. tons. 
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The above weights and estimates are merely 
approximations, and are only intended to show 
as nearly as possible, the average produce, ex- 
cluding the small ones. 
No. 1. Was manured with night soil and a 
slight sprinkling of Guano. Being in the highest 
part of the field, the manure, when the potatoes 
were dug up was found to be only partially 
decomposed. These potatoes are of very shy 
growth, their skins were occasionally scabbed. 
Their amount per drill some years since was 
193 lbs. 
Nos. 2 and 3. The Guano was mixed with 
twice its weight of fine coal ashes, and Nos. 4 
and 5, with sand instead of ashes. 
In a portion of Nos. 4 and 5, about a fourth 
