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1^ tons of tobacco stems at $15.00 per ton, . . . $22 50 

 800 pounds of bone at $35.00, " ♦' . . . 14 00 



To which I also add the same amount as in 

 the first case, for other expenses ; viz. : — 



For labor, " 86 00 



Plants, laud and taxes and shed room, . . . .26 00 



$148 50 



Ck. By 1,600 pounds tobacco at 12 cents per lb. . 180 00 



Balance in favor of crop, $31 50 



It may be proper here to remark that the price of twelve 

 cents per pound, as the value of these crops, w^as not the 

 actual price for which these crops were sold, but a supposa- 

 ble price, and perhaps may be considered a fair average 

 price, although many crops are sold for from fifteen to 

 twenty cents per pound, and in some instances even more. 

 A crop of five acres, owned by the writer, grown in the year 

 1880, brought him four hundred dollars per acre, and many 

 instances could be named where, during the last five years, 

 farmers have received from three to five hundred dollars per 

 acre for their tobacco. 



Mr. Hubbard says that the crop, fertilized as above, was 

 fully equal to the crops on land fertilized wath barn-yard 

 manure ; and, further, that where he used two tons of 

 tobacco stems per acre instead of one and a half tons, the 

 crop gave the best returns. 



He recommends the changing of fertilizers in succeeding 

 years; ^.e., where he* has used a certain kind of fertilizer 

 this year, he will use a dilferent kin'd another year. The 

 labor account of the different acres would not vary much, ex- 

 cepting as it may be more or less labor to apply the difier- 

 ent fertilizers. 



It has been a common way with some to hire the crop 

 raised by the pound, I have heard of instances wdiere five 

 cents per pound was paid for the labor, the owner furnishing 

 the land, team, fertilizers and shed room for curing, the 

 employee doing all the work, and delivering the crop in the 

 case ready for sale. Other cases have been where every- 



