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usual tools under average conditions on a common 

 farm. The soil varied from dark, heavy loam to very 

 light gravel. Most of the crops were fertilized with 

 barn manure with some fertilizer added. There were 

 corn, peas, beans, cabbage, cauliflower, squash, pota- 

 toes, beets and tomatoes. The methods employed were 

 not unusual, but were hberal and thorough. His 

 account describes each crop. 



Tomatoes on light soil, fairly manured, received 

 also two handfuls of fertilizer per hill at setting, also 

 one-fifth pound nitrate of soda after fruit was formed. 

 Sold thirty-five bushels for twenty dollars and sixty- 

 eight cents besides eight or ten bushels wasted for lack 

 of market. Cost of crop, fifteen dollars and eighty- 

 eight cents ; profit, four dollars and eighty cents. 



One-fifth of an acre planted to Early Essex sweet 

 corn with four hundred pounds fertilizer appeared 

 to stand the drouth very well, although on dry run-out 

 land. A trace of the corn took a two-dollar prize at 

 the county fair, and the crop of forage was very heavy. 

 Corn and forage were valued at thirty-three dollars and 

 seventy-eight cents ; cost, sixteen dollars and thirty 

 cents ; profit, seventeen dollars and forty-eight cents. 



Early Roberts potato, four square rods, proved 

 earliest of all varieties tried and yielded six bushels. 

 Rural Blush gave a light yield. Rural New Yorker 

 and Carmen No. 3 gave large yields of large, smooth, 

 late-keeping potatoes, but were outyielded by old 

 kinds Hke Clark's No. i. Beauty of Hebron, Pearl of 

 Savoy. The potatoes won eight premiums at the Essex 

 county fair. 



Writes Mr. Cole: I believe in liberal manuring, 

 deep planting, level cultivation, light seeding, prompt 

 application of bug juice and early digging. I cut the 

 seed one eye to the piece, drop in furrows six inches 

 deep and ten inches apart in the furrow and turn in 



