ROOT CROPS. 183 



Ploughing, 50 cents ; hoeing and thinning, $1, . $1 50 

 On'c-half manure expended, . . . . 2 50 



Seed and sowing, 75 cts.; harvesting crop, $1.50, 2 25 



$Q 25 



Net profit, $27 75 



West Springfield, November 1, 1860. 



Statement of Joseph A. Smith. 



Mixed Crops. — The land last year produced wheat and tur- 

 nips. This year, about the middle of April, it was ploughed 

 ten inches deep. Eight cords of compost manure was spread on 

 the ploughed surface. Early potatoes were planted soon after, in 

 rows four feet apart and one foot in the drill. A little super- 

 phosphate was sprinkled on the potatoes in each hill. In the 

 month of May they were hoed twice. In July one hundred 

 and seventeen bushels were dug and sold for one hundred and 

 thirty-five dollars and seventy-two cents. On the 29tli of May, 

 after finishing the potato hoeing, an early variety of corn was 

 planted with a machine between the rows of potatoes, in hills 

 twenty-two inches apart. Super-phosphate was used in each 

 corn hill. On the 11th of June, the corn was hoed and thinned 

 to three stalks in a hill. The corn was again hoed the last of 

 July. Nothing else was done till the last of October, when 

 one hundred bushels of ears of corn were husked. Two bush- 

 els of ears shelled one bushel and seven quarts of corn, worth 

 at least, with the stalks, fifty-seven dollars. After clearing out 

 the potatoes the last of July, one pound of English turnip seed 

 was sown among the corn and hoed. In the first week in 

 November seventy-eight bushels of merchantable turnips were 

 harvested, worth at twenty cents per bushel, fifteen dollars and 

 sixty cents. It will thus be seen that the three crops of pota- 

 toes, corn and turnips on one acre in the Connecticut River 

 Valley, this year, have yielded $208.32. 



117 bushels early potatoes, ..... 



50 bushels corn, ....... 



corn stalks, ....... 



78 bushels turnips, 



$208 3i 



