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Cost of I ton Buffalo fertilizer. 8 1 7.00 

 Cost of cultivation, 6.00 



Cost of seed and Paris green, 3.50 



Total cost, $26.50 



Balance in favor of crop, $76.63 



The cost of digging and marketing is paid by the improvement in 

 the land by fertilizing and work. 



H. E. HlBBAUl). 



The half acre of potatoes I entered for the society premiums was 

 grown on the same plot of land that produced a good crop last year. 

 The large crop of last year (347 bushels) together with the fact that 

 they were some scabby led me to try the much advertised remedy of 

 poisoning the seed with corrosive sublimate. I procured 4 oz. of 

 the poison, dissolved it in hot water, put it in a tub with 15 gallons 

 of cold water and set my seed potatoes in the mixture in an old 

 basket. They were allowed to remain submerged an hour and a half, 

 then dried, cut and planted. The seed potatoes were as good as I 

 could select from my last year's crop but some were a little specked 

 with scab. The experiment was not a complete success. The wire 

 worms attacked the halves of the potatoes planted and prevented 

 some of them from coming up, but they were planted so thick that 

 the field was fairly stocked. The land was plowed in the fall and 32 

 loads of hog manure worked in before winter. In the spring, it 

 being quite dry for a w^et piece of land, it was fitted and planted the 

 last of April with sulphate of potash applied in the row. I hoed 

 three times and applied Paris green three times to keep the bugs and 

 weeds in check. It made a large growth of tops but the yield was 

 not so good as I hoped for. 



Half acre produced 160 bushels valued at $64.00 



Cost of producing, 56.50 



Profit on crop, $7.50 



James Comins. 



