REPORTS ON POTATOES. 



Patsy Palmer in Account with Potato Crop on 1-8 Acre 



To plowing and fitting for planting, $ 50 

 One-half bag Stockbridge potato fertilizer, 2 25 



Sowing fertilizer and planting potatoes, 50 



One bushel Burbank seed potatoes, 60 



Hoeing twice, 1 00 



Putting on paris green, twice, 50 



Cost of digging and picking, 1 50 



Rent of land, 50 



Total cost, $7 35 



By 1605 lbs. market potatoes at 50c. per bushel, $13 37| 

 330 lbs. small potatoes at 25c. per bushel, 1 37^ 



Total received, $14 75 



7 35 



Net profit, $ 7 40 



I planted the potatoes May 19th, making the rows three feet and 

 three inches apart, strewed the fertilizer in the rows, cut the potatoes 

 in two and dropped 15 inches apart, put three inches of covering on 

 and tread on every hill. 



Patsy Palmer. 

 North Hadley. 



The half acre of potatoes which I offer for premium is a sandy 

 loam. For many years previous to 1880, the grass had been given 

 to Mr. L. D. Cowles for the harvesting. In the fall of 1881 I 

 plowed it; and in 1882 I got a fair crop of potatoes by using a mod- 

 erate amount of fertilizer. In 1883 it gave a good crop of rye, and 

 in 1884 another but much smaller crop of rye. In August, 1884, I 

 ploughed the land six inches deep, and sowed two bushels of rye to 



