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Ploughed in the fall of 1895. 3 inches deep ; in the spring 

 of 1896 the ground was thoroughlj^ harrowed with a disc 

 harrow, brushed with a brush harrow, and furrows opened 

 with an American Cultivator, 2^ feet between rows. Seed 

 cut two eyes on a piece from large potatoes, seed dropped 

 10 to 12 inches apart in the rows, covered with the same 

 cultivator, brushed twice before the potatoes came up 

 lengthwise of the rows, cultivated once, earthed up once 

 witli cultivator, Paris greened once ; at the same time there 

 was made an application of the copper solution recom- 

 mended by the ^lassachusetts Experiment Station ; they 

 were then left until digging time. 



There were 12 bushels of Beauty of Hebron seed put on 

 the half acre. There was also applied i ton of Stock- 

 bridge Potato Fertilizer, and no other kind of manure 

 whatever. The potatoes came up well and grew finely un- 

 til July 10th, when the tops completely covered the 

 ground ; but a few days after the blight struck them when 

 the tubers were about two-thirds grown, and the conse- 

 quence was that at digging time the crop was that much 

 short of what it should have been. The yield on the iacre 

 was 148 1-2 bushels, or at the rate of 297 bushels per acre. 

 There were 27 bushels of seconds and 121 1-2 bushels of 

 merchantable ones. I sold the seconds for 30c. per bushel, 

 and the others are in the cellar, worth at the present time 

 50c. per bushel. 



The cost of the crop was as follows : 



Br. 



To ploughing 1-2 acre, $2 00 



" harrowing, brushing and opening furrows, 1 50 



" seed, 12 bushels, at 30c., 3 60 



'* cutting, dropping and covering, 4 00 



" after cultivation, 3 00 



