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To seed, six bushels small Potatoes, 

 To ploughing and harrowing, two days. 

 To planting and weeding, four days, 

 To manure, two and one-half cords. 

 To harvesting, two and one-half days 



Ce. 

 By 140 bushels saleable Potatoes at 60 cts., 

 " 20 " small " at 25 cts., 



Profit on 1-2 acre, $53 25. 



$89 00 



In the above no account is made of the tops, or of the 

 Value of the manure for future crops. 



Boussingault says, in his "Rural Economy," that, from 

 experiments made, he found that the Potato tops from an 

 acre of ground might be equal to six or seven hundred weight 

 of that manure presumed to be dry. See also statement oil 

 Mangolds. 



MANGOLDS. 



I herewith present the account of my Mangold crop entered 

 for premium : 



This crop was grown on part of the same meadow as de- 

 scribed in statement on Potato crop. 



Variety, Long Eed. Sowed seed May 12th by machine, 

 in drills forty inches apart. The plants were thinned out to 

 twelve or fifteen inches apart. Extent of land, 1-2 acre. 

 Roots put in cellar October 20th. 



During the month of September, the land suflfered severely 

 from drought, so that the crop is not as large as usual. Thir- 

 ty-six tons per acre have been raised on my farm, whereas this 

 year the crop is only twenty-six tons. The salt was broad- 

 cast, and the hen manure put in along the drills. The barn 



