78 



Cr. 



By 60 bush. Clark's No. 1 Potatoes at 60 cents, $36 00 

 By 3 Tons, 1,680 pounds Squash, at $10.50, 40 82 



$1G 32 



Profit, 17 57 



Lot No. 2, contains 80 3-4 rods. The crop of 1882-3 

 was strawberries, with no manure except a little Bradley's 

 phosphate sown broadcast in 1883. The soil is a lightish 

 loam with gravelly subsoil. This lot was manured with 

 five cords barn cellar manure (that had lain out in a pile 

 over winter), spread broadcast and ploughed in six inches 

 deep; April 28, harrowed with a Thomas Smoothing Har- 

 row and planted to Early Sunrise potatoes April 30, in 

 rows three feet apart, with Ames' Phosphate in the drill at 

 the rate of 400 lbs. to the acre, leaving every fourth row 

 vacant, to be planted to squashes later. 



The potatoes were cultivated a number of times and hoed 

 by hand once. The vacant rows were planted to Essex 

 Hybrid Squash, June 19, in hills four and one-half feet 

 apart, with a handful of Ames' Phosphate to a hill, well 

 mixed with the soil, and the seed dropped six to a hill and 

 covered with a hoe ; they came up evenly, were cultivated 

 once, thinned to two in a hill, and were not hoed at all. 

 The potatoes were dug and marketed in July. 

 The cost of the two crops is as follows : 



To 5^ cords of manure on the ground, $38.50 

 To 200 lbs. phosphate, 3.50 



To ploughing and harrowing, 1.75 



To planting potatoes and seed, 4.00 



To cultivating and hoeing potatoes, 1.50 



To Paris Green and applying, 1.00 



To digging and marketing gotatoes, 7.50 



To planting squash seed and cost of seed, 3.50 

 To cultivating and thinning squashes, .50 



To harvesting and hauling to depot, 6.00 



167.75 



