25 



mittee suggested to me that they be spread on the ground and allowed 

 to dry to see how much they would shrink in weight, and when 

 weighed again had only 150 pounds or a shrinkage of 14 pounds to a 

 rod or 135 pounds of merchantable potatoes and 15 pounds of poor 

 and small ones. 



On field No. 2, the committee gave me 132 pounds to the rod or at 

 the rate of 352 bushels per acre. This field measured 108 rods or 

 about two-thirds of an acre and 191 bushels sold at an average of 49 

 cents per bushel or at the rate of 286^ bushels per acre, no account 

 kept of the poor and small ones. Have charged the crop $25 for the 

 manure without any rent for land as it is enough better to make up 

 any deficiency in the charge. 



Dr. 



To 25 loads of manure, 

 1050 pounds of fertilizer, 

 10 bushels of seed at $1.25 per bushel. 

 Plaster and paris green. 

 Labor, 



Total, • $87 85 



Cr. 



$186 00 



'7 59 



Total, $53 56 



