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Expense of cultivation : — 



Manure and seed, - - - - - $7 50 



Ploughing and harrowing, - - - - 75 



Drilling and sowing, - - - - - 1 00 



Hoeing and harvesting, - - - - 5 00 



14 25 



Profit, - - - |6 08 



Owing to the fact of some potatoes growing in the rows, 

 some of them were not fully stocked. I had ten bushels of 

 potatoes on the same, which were worth $7 50. 



Theophilus P. Huntington's Statement. 



I offer for premium, a crop of flat English turnips, one hun- 

 dred and eighty bushels of fifty-two pounds each, raised on 

 less than sixty rods of land. After harvesting a crop of winter 

 wheat, which yielded about twenty-five bushels per acre, I 

 ploughed in, July 24th, fourteen horse-loads of compost manure ; 

 on the 25th, harrowed in thirteen horse-loads more, sowed in 

 drills twenty inches apart and rolled. As soon as the plants 

 were large enough, they were thinned to stand one foot apart 

 in the row. 



They were hoed once more and left till harvest time. Then, 

 with a sharp hoe, the tops were cut and afterwards they were 

 dug and thrown together with the same implement. The ex- 

 penses of cultivation, including seven dollars for manure-, 

 amounted to $14. One hundred and eighty bushels of turnips, 

 at \2h cents, $22 50. 



We see by this account, that twenty-five bushels of wheat, 

 and five hundred bushels of turnips may be produced from an 

 acre of land in one season, worth one hundred dollars. If our 

 brother farmers, who are now engaged in the culture of tobacco, 

 could be induced to devote their rich land and manure to the 

 raising of crops useful to man or beast, perhaps they would 

 be as well prepared to account for the manner in which they 

 had "dressed and kept" the little portion of earth entrusted to 

 them, notwithstanding their purses should not be so well filled. 



Hadley. Dec. 26th. 1851. 



