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requires more manure. Say my onion land, 1 put on four to 

 six cords to the acre. Potatoes, I plant in drills two and a 

 half feet apart, 3d. You inquire about seed. I generally 

 raise my own seed. Sometimes I fail in the project. I often 

 buy potatoes to renew my seed or change it, which I think is a 

 better way, I think it is wisdom to keep the weeds down and 

 hoe often. A horse cultivator and man will do two-thirds of 

 the work amongst corn and potatoes, 4th. You speak of in- 

 sects. No end hardly to them. They are a great trouble to 

 farmers. I have to give the bugs Paris Green, which gives 

 them a bad appetite and very sure to kill, but it requires much 

 care. Maggots are a pest among our onions. I have never 

 found anything to stop them, but only to squeeze them to death. 

 They have been very destructive this year, but after all the poor 

 insects claim a living, if they do have to steal from us. The 

 little striped bug is a great plague, too, but not so bad as the 

 large black bug, which soon destroys the vine. All the way 

 for farmers to do, who want to raise squashes, is to plant about 

 the 20th of June. 5th. I harvest my crops when they are fit 

 for the market. My potatoes and peas come first. 6th. 1 

 keep crops best. Sometimes I think it best to head up in bar- 

 rels, onions and apples and put them in a cool cellar. Some 

 difier on this point and put them in pens, some keep them in 

 the barn. 7th. Results per acre average. Sometimes I raise 

 300 or more bushels of onions ; 200 bushels is a very good 

 crop. Corn, I do not plant much, neither do I plant much 

 Cabbage or Carrots. 



I have answered about all your questions as far forth as I am 

 able, (living to see about 76^ years, which I esteem a great 

 blessing from my Heavenly Father). 



P. S. Those turnips that took the first premium were sowed 

 broadcast where I had early potatoes. Sometimes I sow them 

 in drills. 



