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out the assistance of hotbeds, thorough culti- 

 vation of an acre of good land, one-half of 

 which is in potatoes, will employ a good worker 

 for twenty-four days a year. 



Hon Seth Fenner, of East Aurora, New 

 York, writes : " On a third of an acre of ground, 

 plowing and fertilizing being furnished, half be- 

 ing potatoes and having no hotbeds, from six to 

 eight days should be ample for a good worker to 

 perform all the needed labor from inception to 

 finish." 



Mr. Joseph Morwitz writes: " Saturday after- 

 noons and Sundays during the six months of 

 work, or 39 days, ought to be just enough for 

 one acre, if our test of 1901 on three acres Joint 

 Account Patch were made the basis of calcula- 

 tion. These three acres cost us 1120 hours or 

 112 days of 10 hours, or 37 days per acre. Two 

 crops per season. They were plowed, and I be- 

 lieve, cultivated, by the teams of the Society. 

 The gardeners only planted and harvested and 

 helped out the cultivating to some extent." 



John G. Thompson, the fertilizer expert of 

 Passaic, New Jersey, writes: "You wish an 



