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which were not fully burned, were put into a compost heap 

 and mixed with stable manure, lime, and salt. The land was 

 thrown into drills, manured with compost and unbleached 

 ashes, and sown with cabbage. 



2. Cultivated and manured in the same way excepting the 

 ashes, and sowed with ruta-baga. 



3. 4. The sods were turned over ; the mud spread from 

 the ditches and raked in with a handrake. Land sown with 

 rye and grass. 



5. 6. Planted with potatoes, squashes, pumpkins and cu- 

 cumbers ; manured with very coarse yard manure. 



7. Planted with corn, potatoes and squashes, and manured 

 much the same as 5 and 6. 



The part on which the sod was burnt, produced most abun- 

 dantly ; on a small space of thirty paces, three drills in width, 

 we dug nine bushels of potatoes uncommonly large. We could 

 fill a bushel basket without removing it, and we had no occa- 

 sion for hoes in digging them as we had only to pull the vines 

 to bring them all out. 



1 will add the account of expenses and products. 



327 bushels potatoes at 60 cents 

 5 do rye at $1 25. 

 8 1 do corn at $1 00, 



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$196 20 

 6 25 



8 50 



