ROOT CROPS. 



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and sowed, in rows sixteen inches apart, and four pounds of 

 seed to the acre, in May. It was manured at tke rate of ten 

 cords to the acre, from the barn-yard, spread on and ploughed 

 in. The crop was weeded by hand, and harvested in October. 

 The product was five hundred bushels on the acre. 



One-eighth of this was manured with six dollars' worth of 

 Stockbridge fertilizer, and I think the difference in yield, if 

 any, was in favor of that manured by this fertilizer. 



The crop, as inventoried by the appraisers, was ... $225 00 

 Cost of ploughing, weeding and harvesting, . . . $4.0 50 



Manure, 70 00 



Fertilizer, 6 00 



116 50 



Apparent net profit, $108 50 



Deducting, however, from the cost of the manures, one- 

 third thereof which remains in the land, the actual profit will 

 amount to $134.83. 



Mangolds. — I hereby submit a statement of a field of 

 mangolds, containing four acres. It was planted with pota- 

 toes in 1875, ploughed twice in May, 1876, and harrowed, 

 dragged, and sowed, May 20, in rows, thirty inches apart, 

 and four pounds of seed to the acre. The cultivator was run 

 through the field as often as the weeds sprang up, and the 

 remainder were pulled by hand. 



The crop was harvested the last week in October, and the 

 product amounted to 2,480 bushels. Three-fourths of an 

 acre on one end of the field was manured with Stockbridge 

 fertilizer, at a cost of $21. 



The appraised value of the crop was 



Cost of Raising 



Cost of barn-yard manure, 

 of fertilizer, 

 of seed, . 

 of ploughing, 

 of hoeing 

 of harvesting, 



1,116 00 



$250 00 

 21 00 

 3 00 

 28 00 

 60 00 

 60 00 



Apparent profit, 

 16* 



422 00 

 $694 00 



