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with stable manure, eight cords to the acre, and raised a crop 

 of cabbages. Ploughed the land again in the fall. About the 

 20th of April, 1882, it was again ploughed 6 to 8 inches deep, 

 harrowed, furrowed 39 inches apart, 6 inches deep, manured 

 with stable manure spread in drills about 6 to 7 cords to the 

 acre. Planted with Early Rose and Clark's No. 1 potatoes, about 

 ten bushels to the acre, cut in pieces, two to three eyes each, 

 dropped in furrows twelve inches apart, covered with No. 10 

 Oliver Chilled Plow. When the potatoes were sprouted, har- 

 rowed the piece down level with bush harrow. They were 

 cultivated twice, hoed by hand-hoe once and horse-hoe once. 

 Bugs were destroyed by applying Paris green and plaster dust 

 mixed, one pound of Paris green to one hundred and fifty 

 pounds of plaster dust. Gathered last of October two hun- 

 dred bushels No. 1 Potatoes, twenty bushels No. 2. 



STATEMENT. Dr. 



Ploughing and Harrowing, $3.75 



Use of land, 7.50 



Cost of Manure, 27.00 



Getting out Manure and Planting, 8.00 



7| bushels of Potatoes, 9.00 



Bush Harrowing, 1.50 



Cultivating and Hoeing, 8.00 



Labor, Plaster and Green, 3.00 



Harvesting and Storing, ' 13.00 



$80.75 



Cr. 

 By 200 bushels No. 1 Potatoes at 82 cts., 164.00 



By 20 bushels No. 2 Potatoes at 36 cts., 7.20 



$171.20 



STATEMENT OF J. W. BLODGETT. 



The following is the account of my Hquash crop entered for 

 premium : — 



