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from the time he purchased the farm, sold the apple crop 

 from it for $6000 cash. 



"Peanuts: Culture and Uses," by R. B. Handy in Far- 

 mers' Bulletin No. 25 of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture says: 



"According to the Census the average yield of peanuts 

 in the United States was 17.6 bushels per acre, the average 

 in Virginia being about 20, and in Tennessee 32 bushels per 

 acre. This appears to be a low average, especially as official 

 and semiofficial figures give 50 to 60 bushels as an average 

 crop, and 100 bushels is not an uncommon yield. Fair 

 peanut land properly manured and treated to intelligent ro- 

 tation of crops should produce in an ordinary season a 

 yield of 50 bushels to the acre and from 1 to 2 tons of ex- 

 cellent hay. (Of course better land with more liberal treat- 

 ment and a favorable season will produce heavier crops, the 

 reverse being true of lands which have been frequently 

 planted with peanuts without either manuring or rotation of 

 crops.) Besides the amount of peanuts gathered, there are 

 always large quantities left in the ground which have es- 

 caped the gathering, and on these the planter turns his herd 

 of hogs, so that there is no waste of any part of the plant." 



Tobacco is a paying crop if the soil is just right. Two 

 thousand pounds per acre can be raised on favorable sites. 

 Connecticut tobacco brings, in ordinary times, from twenty to 

 thirty cents a pound ; from four to over six hundred dollars 

 being the possible return. 



Some Connecticut soils raise Sumatra tobacco equal to 

 the imported crop that sells in this country at fancy prices. 

 The Department of Agriculture claims that the Cuban 

 type of tobacco can be closely approximated in Pennsylvania 

 and Ohio. 



