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way, twice between rows of corn, and harrow crosswise with 

 a single horse attached to a single section of an iron harrow. 

 This does good work. For Spring wheat, I remove the corn- 

 stalks, mostly by breaking with railroad iron, then raking them 

 into rows and burning them. I sow about one and a half to 

 two bushels to the acre, cultivate, and harrow thoroughly. My 

 yield of Spring wheat is about fifteen bushels per acre. 

 Cost of producing wheat crop, per acre : 

 Seed, one and three-quarter bushels, at one 



dollar, - - - - - - - $1.75 



Sowing, cultivating, and harrowing, - - .75 



Harvesting and stacking, including board, - 2.00 

 Threshing, four cents per bushel, - - .60 



Total expense, per acre, - - - - $5.10 

 Making the actual expense of producing a bushel of wheat 

 here only thirty-four cents, and leavmg the farmer a profit of 

 eight dollars per acre, at the present price of wheat. 



My mode of growing oats is similar to the one described 

 for wheat, and my yield has been forty-six bushels per acre, 

 which gives a handsome profit at the present price — twenty- 

 five cents per bushel. 



POTATOES. 



I plow deeply about the fifteenth of May, harrow the 

 ground well, and lay out in drills, tolerably deep, and wide 

 enough apart to be cultivated with a two-horse corn plow. I 

 drop the sets about ten inches apart, and cover with the two- 

 horse cultivator, having the shovels well set in to throw the 

 dirt heavily on the furrow. This covers the seeds with loose 

 earth without displacing or tramping them in the furrow, as 

 when covered by a single horse. My yield has been about 

 two hundred bushels per acre, mostly Peachblows. I find no 

 trouble with potato bugs, and have not ijeeded to use any 

 preventives, or to hand-pick since coming here, an experience 

 of seven years. These pests will be found wherever the 

 potatoes are planted early. But potatoes phmted here after 

 the twentieth of May, in quantity not less than an acre, and 



