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Then the crop of carrots. I raised an acre of carrots, and 

 I raised one-eighth of an acre on this fertilizer, which cost me 

 $6. There were 62± bushels on this eighth of an acre. The 

 yield per acre was 497 bushels. I call it 500 bushels to the acre. 

 The cost of the manure, at the price stated and the amount, was 

 $80. The fertilizers would have cost $48. Now, I am clear that 

 in the carrot crop there was a decided difference. You could 

 see it in the growth of the carrots, and you could see it after 

 the crop was gathered. After they were ploughed out, going 

 through them (they were planted on the ends of. the rows) , 

 you could see that those grown with the fertilizer were larger 

 than the others. The cost of this fertilizer was only $48 per 

 acre against $80 for the other. 



Then take the ruta-baga crop. I planted one-eighth of an 

 acre, and to that I applied one-half the formula for ruta-bagas, 

 which cost me $3. It produced 111| bushels. The yield to 

 the acre was 892 bushels. It was manured at the rate of five 

 cords to the acre, — $40. The fertilizer would have cost $24. 

 I could not see any difference in the crop. The ruta-bagas 

 raised on the fertilizer were just as good as those raised on 

 the barn-yard manure. The whole produced at the rate of 

 892 bushels to the acre. 



Then I tried an experiment with corn. I never have raised 

 corn ; I thought I could not afford to do it. I wanted to 

 raise corn, because I wanted the fodder for my milch cows ; 

 but I never thought I could afford to do it. But'I tried the 

 experiment, because I had great confidence that other people 

 had done it, and I did not know but I could do it. I have 

 had to buy corn, but I supposed I could buy it cheaper than 

 I could raise it. The fertilizer cost me $13.50. I planted 

 half an acre, and raised forty bushels. When I gathered that 

 I weighed it, and, at the rate of seventy-two pounds of ears 

 to the bushel, I calculated there were forty bushels ; but to 

 make sure, I deduct two bushels and a half, and call it 37| 

 bushels. That is seventy-five bushels to the acre. Before I 

 decided to plant that corn, I had manured the land for pota- 

 toes, but I concluded to try this experiment, and so it had, in 

 addition to the chemical fertilizer, a cord and a half of barn- 

 yard manure, which, at $8 a cord, cost $12. The manure on 

 this half-acre cost $25.50. Thirty-seven and one-half bushels 



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