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The account stands about as follows : — 



Dr 



To 



$45 10 

 Cr. 

 By 80 bushels and 20 pounds of Potatoes at 



56i cents, $45 10 



Respectfully submitted, 

 Hadley. Oct. 25, 1881. WEST BROTHERS. 



Statement by West Brothers on Potatoes. 



Committee on Crops, Gentlemen : 



The half acre we planted to potatoes has been 

 pastured for twenty years or more. Plowed in April and planted the 

 second week in Ma}- with two cords of manure in the furrow. The 

 potatoes were dropped on the manure eighteen inches apart and the 

 whole covered with ridger and hoe. 



Part of the piece seeded with very large Burbanks, a fourth to a 

 sixth of a potato to a hill, and the balance were Brigham Seedlings, one 

 small potato to a hill. The rows were five to a rod. 



