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4th of June with '^ Early Michigan" potatoes, three feet apart 

 in the furrows, hoed the 2nd of July. Amount of crop on six- 

 ty-five rods 104 2-5 bushel ; 256 64-65 bushels to the acre. 

 The piece was shaded by six apple trees. 



COST OF CROP. 



Fifteen loads manure, $30,00 



Ploughing and furrowing, 2.00 



Planting, 1.50 



Three bushels " Early Michigan" seed at $2, 6,00 



Cultivating and hoeing, 3,00 



Harvesting, 5,50 



Interest on land, 3,00 



$51,00 

 Cr. by 104 2-5 bushels potatoes a $1, $104,40 



You will notice that I reckon my crop at $1 per bushel, 

 which is a very low figure. I think it will sell very readily 

 in the spring at $2 per bushel, as it is a very early variety, 

 requiring but two and one-half months from planting, to be fit 

 for the table, and are of a very superior quality. 



STATEMENT OF J. L. NEWHALL. 



Statement of a crop of squashes raised by J. L. Newhall, of 

 Newbury port, 1869. The crop of 1867 was grass, without 

 manure, the crop of 1868, one half grass without manure, the 

 remainder squashes and potatoes with manure at the rate of four 

 cords per acre, applied in the hill, the soil is a gravelly loam ; 

 the land was ploughed in the fall and again in the spring, about 

 five cords of manure was ploughed under at the last ploughing, 

 and two cords applied in the hill at planting. Value of manure 

 on the land, $56 ; cost of ploughing and planting, $6 ; cost of 

 cultivating and harvesting, $18. 



Product of 140 1-3 rods, 9 tons 1,202 pounds. 



STATEMENT OF JAMES J. H. GREGORY. 



I enter one lot of premium Flat Dutch cabbage, grown in 

 Marblehead, on a piece of pasture land, drained by tile last 



