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BY EDDIE A. PARKER, 



12 years old. 



The piece of potatoes for boys, of one-eight of an acre, plowed 

 in the spring. Put three loads of manure on to it and subsoiled it in. 

 It was furrowed out and sixty lbs. fertilizer dropped in the hill and 

 covered, and the potatoes dropped and covered. The kind was 

 Beauty of Hebron. It was cultivated out twice, and hoed twice. 



Dr. To plowing and harrowing, 

 Manure, 3 loads, 



Fertilizer, 



Cultivating and hoeing, 

 Digging and harvesting. 

 One-half bushel potatoes, 



Half the manure left in the ground. 



Cr. By 26 1-2 bushels potatoes at 50 cents. 

 For raising crop. 



Leaving profit, $5 25 



This piece was turf laud. 



