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then rolled and harrowed until it was mellow, and planted with corn 

 and potatoes. The yield of potatoes was upwards of 60 bushels per 

 acre, with the exception of a part that was planted two rows of corn 

 and two of potatoes alternately, which yielded about a quarter more. 

 For the present crop the ground was plowed once, and poudrette and 

 bone dust sowed alternately, at the rate of ten bushels per acre. The 

 previous crop on a part of the piece was potatoes, on the other pickles- 

 That where the potatoes grew was sowed about the 20th September, 

 the other ten days after. The seed was washed in brine sufficiently 

 strong to bear a hen's egg, rolled in air slacked lime, and immediately 

 sown broadcast at the rate of 1 3-4 bushels per acre, and harrowed 

 in with the manure. 



The yield was 20 bushels per acre, mostly of the white flint va- 

 riety. Nothing was done to the crop from the time of sowing until 

 harvest. The wheat was cut about the 10th of July, raked, bound, 

 and set up in what is called Dutch shocks for two days, and then put 

 in barracks. 



Very respectfully, 



H. U. TIBBITS. 



POTATOES. 



Jamaica, L. I., Nov. 15, 1845. 



The ground was once plowed before manuring. It was then ma- 

 nured at the rale of twenty wagon-loads to the acre, of equal parts of 

 barn yard and horse manure, and then plowed in. The cost was $25 

 per acre. The wheat yielded 28 bushels to the acre. 



The potatoes were planted three feet apart in drills. They were 

 manured in the drills at the rate of 15 wagon-loads to the acre, and 

 yielded 250 bushels per acre. 



RespeclluIIy, 



JAMES VAN SICLEN. 



