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each part of three separate acres, grown on land of widely different 

 character, and under very dissimilar conditions. 



The first acre is a strong loam, with a clay subsoil. It is owned 

 by Wm. S. Westcott, and I have cultivated it on shares for several 

 years. Last year it was manured with 3U00 pounds of Stockbridge 

 Potato Manure, and produced a crop of 360 bushels of potatoes. 

 Soon after the potatoes were dug I sowed on two bushels of rye and 

 harrowed it in with the Acme harrow. This made a good growth, 

 and, May 1st, 1891, I plowed it in seven inches deep. May 5th, I 

 harrowed, marked, and furrowed six inches deep, and dropped small 

 potatoes — 2 to 4 oz. each — a foot apart in the furrow, and covered 

 them two to three inches, with hand hoes. The varieties were Early 

 Rose, White Star, and Early Maine ; and there is no appreciable 

 difference in the weight or value of their respective yields. About a 

 week after planting I sowed 2500 lbs. of Wilcox potato manure along 

 the drills, and covered it by harrowing the piece lengthwise of the 

 drills. A fortnight later I gave the piece a thorough harrowing with 

 the Acme harrow across the rows, which filled the furrows nearly 

 level full, destroyed the weed germs, and left the field in the best 

 possible condition for the after cultivation of the crop. This con- 

 sisted in two passages of the cultivator, one of the shovel plow or 

 horse-hoe, and one of the small, double mould-board plow, two hand 

 hoeings, and one hand weeding. We also dusted the vines with 

 plaster and paris green to kill the bugs, using 150 lbs. of plaster and 

 2 lbs. paris green. The ol^ject sought and measurably accomplished 

 was to provide a liberal supply of available plant food, and repeated 

 additions of the rich mellow earth in which potatoes delight to mul- 

 tiply and grow. The season was favorable, and the crop a profitable 

 one. The rows were three feet two inches center to center, and a 

 rod of row selected, dug and weighed by your committee, yielded 36 

 lbs., which is at the rate of 499 bushels to the acre. 



The second piece is on land in my own occupation. It is a sandy 

 loam, and produced about a ton of hay to the acre in 1889. Last 

 year it was plowed, planted to corn, and manured with seven cords 

 of barn manure and 200 lbs. of Stockbridge corn manure ; and a rod 

 selected, harvested and weighed by the committee on Farm Crops, 

 Oct. 30, 1890, yielded 51^ ll)s. of corn on the ear; and this, shelled 

 by the committee, gave 40| lbs. of shelled corn. This was at the 

 rate of 115 bushels of shelled corn to the acre. It was plowed April 



