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nips, in 1S46. May 18th, to 23d. ploughing ground, $2 00; 

 carting out and spreading 30 loads compost manure, $3 50 ; 

 ploughing in manure, harrowing and furrowing, $2 00; three 

 men and boy one day, planting, $3 50; dropping 1| casks of 

 plaster in the hills, $3 00 ; 23 bushels of potatoes, long reds, 

 $11 50. June 16th, cultivating, 75 cents ; two men and boy one 

 day hoeing, $2 50. July 1st, cultivating, 75 cents; two men 

 and boy one day, hoeing, $2 50 ; August 2d, cutting up weeds, 

 50 cents. Whole amount of labor, $18 00; one and a half 

 casks of plaster, $3 00; 30 loads compost manure, made as fol- 

 lows : in the fall of 1S46, carted to my barn a pile of muck ; as 

 I threw out the manure daily, I mixed the muck with it ; kept 

 it covered when it was not frozen too hard ; early in the spring, 

 dug it over and piled it up, about equal parts of muck and ma- 

 nure. The manure I called worth 75 cents per load, $22 50; 

 chopping over and piling up manure, $1 25; use of land, $6 00; 

 23 bushels potatoes, at 50 cents, $11 50 ; Total, $62 25. 



October 18th, the supervisor came and selected one rod of 

 ground, dug and weighed the potatoes, 160 pounds, making 457 

 bushels 8-56 to the acre. I have not dug my potatoes, so I 

 cannot include the cost of digging. The potatoes have cost, as 

 they are in the ground, between 13 and 14 cents per bushel, 

 which I think is as much as they are worth, as there are so 

 many of them defective. 



Middleborough, Oct. 23, 1847. 



