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Red-top with Red Clover 8 to 10 qrts. per acre. 



Blue Grass \ x . , 



-D u (for special purposes or particular 



Orchard Grass $ localitie8 10 tO 26 lbs ' 



White Clover to be added to either of the above... 2 to 4 " " 



" if for any reason sown alone 4 to 6 " " 



Broom Corn drilled 4 to 6 pks. " 



Flax drilled 4 to 6 " 



Potatoes, varying very much, as being in hills or\ 



drills, small or large, cut or uncut. See p. 171. ) 



Ruta Baga drilled or broadcast ) ^ to ji Uj S 



Common Turnips drilled or broadcast > 



Beets drilled... 2 to 4 " 



Carrots drilled H to 2 " 



Parsneps " 2 to 4 " 



Onions " 3 to 5 " 



Cabbages : i Ib. of seed, if thinly sown, and escaping the fly, will yield an 



abundance of plants for one acre. 



ESTIMATE OF CROP. 



Crop, or that return for our outlay of manure, and seed, and 

 labor, which is derived from land, may be estimated either by 

 its money value or by its capacity to supply the wants of ani- 

 mal life. If estimated by the former, which always depends 

 on the relation of supply and demand, it is manifest that it 

 will be liable to fluctuation from a great variety of causes : the 

 variations of seasons, difference of localities, failure or super- 

 abundance of the same crop, or any similar class of crops, in 

 other sections or countries, &c. Any of these may so affect 

 this relation that a rich crop will give but a poor return in 

 money, or that a very moderate crop may prove extremely 

 profitable ; the very abundance of the yield in the former case, 

 whether from natural or artificial causes, rendering the product 

 almost valueless, when the extra labor of gathering and mar- 

 keting the excess is taken into account. 



In general, perishable products, as fruits and vegetables for 

 consumption in the current season, are most promptly and 

 largely affected by this cause ; but, in a degree, grain, and the 

 various dry products that admit of being kept, obey the same 

 immutable law, and fluctuate, often to the disappointment of 

 the farmer's hopes or the ruin of the miscalculating speculator. 



The lesser or greater distance from market also affects this 



