700 JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO. 



acres sown by the drill at the rate of two bushels to the acre. 



From four acres of Hungarian grass sown on the twentieth 

 of May, I harvested fifteen tons of hay on the twentieth of 

 July. I had in my timothy meadow twelve acres, which pro- 

 duced twenty-four tons of hay and twelve bushels of seed. 



CLOVEE. 



From eight acres of clover I harvested twenty tons of hay 

 for my first crop. The second crop yielded eleven and one- 

 half bushels of seed. 



I jjlanted eight acres in corn, the ground being thoroughly 

 pulverized with the harrow and roller. I planted on the tenth 

 of May, in rows three and one-half feet apart, with a drill, drop- 

 ping one grain every twelve inches. The amount of corn in the 

 ear, measured in the crib, was one thousand and twenty-six 

 bushels. Corn planted in this way produces large ears in place 

 of so many small ones. 



• , POTATOES. 



I had four acres in potatoes, but, the season being unfavor^ 

 able, the yield was small, amounting to but five hundred and 

 ten bushels. My method of planting potatoes is to heavily 

 manure the ground, then plow about eight inches deep, and 

 work down with a harrow and roller. The ground I then run 

 out in rows three feet apart, and drop the potatoes, two pieces 

 in a place, two feet apart, and cover them with the hoe two 

 inches deep. 



I usually plant one acre the first week in April ; the re- 

 mainder about the middle of May. This insures me a full crop. 



SWEET CORN. 



I put in one acre of sweet corn. It was of the mammoth 

 sugar variety. This acre produced about thirty dollars worth 

 of corn, besides sup[)l3'ing three families. With the corn were 

 ninety -five loads of pumpkins. These pumpkins I planted 

 about the first of June, in every other row of corn, about six 

 feet apart in the rows. I had sixty-five acres in the crops, and 

 left forty-nine acres of pasture for the stock. 



