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vested one rod, which weighed 409 pounds, or at the 

 rate of 1,189|-| bushels per acre. 



Exx>enses. 



When this plot was planted, I supposed it contained forty 

 rods, and expected to weigh the whole crop as the product of 

 forty rods ; but when measured by the supervisor, it was 

 found to contain but thirty-five rods. 



Statement of Albert Thomas of Middleborough . 



Potatoes. — The eighty rods on which my potatoes grew is 

 a strong sandy loam, and was in grass, without dressing, in 

 1874. Last year I planted it to corn, using about forty loads 

 of barn-yard manure to the acre. Last May, it was ploughed 

 twice, about nine inches deep, turning under ten loads of 

 manure to the acre, and harrowed and furrowed. It was 

 planted the last of May with the Early Rose and Davis Seed- 

 lings, about eight bushels to the acre. One-third was manured 

 in the hill with hen manure and plaster, and one-third with 

 plaster. The hen manure and plaster produced the best 

 crop. 



Cultivated and hoed twice. October 3, harvested one 



rod, which weighed 103 pounds, or at the rate of 274| bushels 



per acre. 



Expenses. 



Ploughing, etc., $5 00 



Manure, 8 00 



Seed and planting, 5 00 



Cultivation, 2 50 



Harvesting, 5 00 



Total $25 50 



