68 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



acre, raised at a cost of sixteen days' labor, or about twenty-six 

 cents per bushel. 



Potatoes. — Dovers were planted on one acre. After plough- 

 ing, the drills were made with a double mould board plough, 

 three feet apart ; potatoes which were too small for table use 

 were then dropped one foot apart ; tobacco stalks cut into six 

 inch pieces were then dropped, to which was then added a 

 slight sprinkling of ashes, plaster and salt. The whole was then 

 covered by running the plough between the rows ; a bush harrow 

 was then passed over the piece, which left the field nearly level. 

 When the potatoes were three or four inches high, all but four 

 of the stalks in each hill were pulled out. Seventeen days' 

 labor were required to complete the work. The result was one 

 hundred and seventy-five bushels of potatoes, at about ten cents 

 per bushel. 



Davis Seedlings were planted on one acre in the same man- 

 ner as the preceding, with the exception that the land was 

 manured with the tobacco stalks which grew on two acres. 

 Thirteen days' labor finished the cultivation and harvesting of 

 this crop, raised at an expense of about six cents per bushel. 

 One row left without manure showed a deficiency of crop 

 amounting to twenty-five bushels per acre, as compared with 

 the other rows. 



Carrots. — Half an acre was manured at the rate of fifteen 

 cords per acre. The carrots were sown in drills three feet 

 apart, May 14th. Harvested three hundred and forty-five 

 bushels, weighing fifty pounds per bushel, at an expense of 

 twenty days' labor, or about six cents per bushel. 



Parsnips. — Half an acre was manured at the rate of ten 

 cords per acre. Sowed May 14th in drills three feet apart. 

 Harvested one hundred and sixty bushels a^ an expense of 

 eighteen days' labor, or a cost of about eleven cents per bushel. 



Turnips. — Two and a half acres were sown on rye .stubble, 

 from July 2yth to August 7th. The drills were made three 

 feet apart, and manure at the rate of four cords per acre was 

 applied in the drill. The seed was sown on this by hand, and 

 covered with a hoe. The after cultivation was thinning and 

 hoeing, using the harrow and cultivator when necessary. To 

 one acre of the above a mixture of super-phosphate, ashes and 

 plaster was applied in the drill to the value of about eight 



