120 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



HAMPDEN EAST. 

 Statement of Horace Wallis, Jr., of Holland. 



Potatoes. — My field of Chili potatoes, entered for a pre- 

 mium from your society, contains one acre of sward land. 

 It was ploughed and planted the last of May, with fifteen 

 loads of barn-yard manure spread and ploughed under, seven 

 inches deep, and with a small handful of plaster in each hill. 



Cost of manure, 15 loads, $30, one-half for the benefit of the 



potato crop, $15 00 



Plaster, 1 50 



Ploughing, 3 00 



Seed-potatoes, 12 bushels, 40 cents per bushel, . . . . 4 80 



Planting, • 3 00 



Hoeing twice, 4 00 



Harvesting, 10 00 



Interest on land, 3 00 



Total cost, $44 30 



I have harvested my potatoes, and find that the "Chilis" 

 yield, per acre, 159 bushels, — 



At 85 cents per bushel, $135 15 



Cost, 44 30 



Balance in favor of potatoes, $90 85 



The treatment and cost of the seedling potatoes on the 

 home farm were the same as that of the potatoes on the Jones 

 farm, $44.30. 



The seedlings yield per acre 133 bushels, at 85 cents per bushel, 



amounting to $113 05 



Cost, 44 30 



Balance in favor of potatoes, $68 75 



Statement of Horace P. Wakefield of Monson. 



Carrots. — I submit a statement of a field of one acre of 

 carrots. This field has been in grass for six or seven years. 

 It was ploughed in August, 1875, manured slightly, and sown 

 to English turnips. It was ploughed, harrowed, dragged, 



