20 



Cr. 



By 87 bushels dried corn at 60 cts., $52.20 



By 4 tons corn fodder at $5 per ton, 20.00 



Improvement in soil for future crops, 12.50 



Total income, 84.70 



Dr. 



Interest and taxes on land, $4.00 



Manure and fertilizer applied, 35.00 



Plowing, harrowing and marking, 3.00 



Cultivating and hoeing, 4.00 



Cutting and husking, 11.00 



Total cost, $57.00 



Profit, $27.70 



You will see by the above that farmers can get pay for their work 

 and some profit if they make thorough work and raise a good crop. 



James Comins. 



POTATOES. 



A report on the half acre of potatoes I entered for the society 

 premium. 



The soil on which 'this crop grew was of sandy loam, quite heavy 

 and wet with surface water early in the season. It had never been 

 planted with any hoed crop. It has been plowed and seeded with 

 grass and top-dressed for hay many times within the last forty years. 

 I conceived the idea that by planting it with potatoes and manuring 

 liberal three years in succession I could overcome the tendency to 

 produce wild grass and polypod brake and improve the soil. The 

 land was plowed in the fall and the manure applied at the rate of five 

 cords per acre from the hog-pen. It was spread and harrowed in in 

 the fall of 1892. The land was so wet that I could not plant until 

 the 25th of May. It was then harrowed and marked in rows three 

 feet apart. We applied ashes in the row at the rate of one ton per 

 acre. Then with the ashes in the row was applied Bradley's potato 

 fertilizer at the rate of six hundred pounds to the acre. It was 

 planted with halves of potatoes dropped fifteen inches apart in the 

 rows. The variety was known as Snowflake. The result was as fol- 



