STATEMENT ON POTATOES, 



I'.V WEST BROS. 



The field of potsitoes we enter for premium contains 96 rods. 



The soil is a loam and it was manured twice last year and cut 

 about one and oue-half tons of hay. 



The Tobacco stalks from one and three-fourths awes of Tobacco 

 were spread on the land and ploughed under the last of November, 

 about six inches deep. 



The land was divided into live plats. The first four contained 

 seven rows, thirteen rods long, each. 



The first plat was manured with •^00 lbs of Stockbridge's manures. 



The second plat with '200 lbs of Chemicals bought of Horton & 

 Phelps. 



The third plat with muriate of potash at the rate of 200 lbs to the 

 acre, and enough dry fish sown to have it cost five dollars for the plat. 



The fourth plat with five loads of stable manure, in the hill, or 

 about one cord of manure. 



The balance of the piece with stable manure, at the rate of ten 

 tons to the acre, spread on top and worked into the soil with a 

 wheel-barrow. 



The land was marked out with five rows to the rod. 



The first three plats were planted with Beauty of Hebron, Early 

 Rose and Clark's No. 1. 



The fourth and fifth with Early Rose and Bliss' Triumph. 



The yield was as follows ; the rows are all thirteen rods long. 

 Early Rose from 



