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1837, and the other in the spring of 1838 the whole a 

 clover pasture in 1837. The part ploughed in the spring 

 had sixty large wagon loads of straw from the barn yard put 

 on and turned well under the sod that part ploughed in the 

 fall was well harrowed and cultivated and then furrowed 

 shallow, and the seed dropped in drills, and fifteen loads of 

 straw and sheep manure, taken from the sheep sheds, put in 

 the hills over the potatoes. This piece was decidedly better 

 than the first mentioned. The ground was naturally moist, 

 and the excessive rains of the springs washed and drowned 

 the seed very bad, so as to destroy more than a half acre, on 

 part of which I planted on the 4th of July early white beans, 

 from which I harvested three bushels of sound beans. Yet 

 notwithstanding the bad season and rains, I harvested seven 

 hundred and fifty-five bushels of potatoes, mostly pink eyes, 

 the remainder a flesh colored (not the Sardinia,) which I 

 call long keepers, from their being a better potatoe for sum- 

 mer's use than the pink eye. But the object of this commu- 

 nication is to give you the result of my experiment in 1838, 

 on the quantity of seed required. 



