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The field of potatoes that I entered for premiums was plowed in 

 the fall seven inches deep, and on one-half of the piece thirty loads 

 of manure to the acre was spread in the fall ; the other part had thir- 

 ty loads of manure to the acre spread on in the spring, and the whole 

 field worked in the spring with a wheel harrow, and five dollars worth 

 of dry fish and sulphate of potash sowed in the furrow, and the cul- 

 tivation of the whole was the same. The committee gave me on the 

 first plat at the rate of 332 bushels, and on the second plat 290 

 bushels. 



Dr. 

 To fitting land, $ 5 00 



30 loads manure, . 30 00 



Fertilizer, 5 00 



10 bushels seed, 7 50 



Paris green and plaster, 3 00 



Labor, 30 00 



Gr. 

 By 166 bushels potatoes on | acre. 

 145 " " " I " 



The crop rotted some so that there was about 250 bushels good, 

 merchantable potatoes left. 



250 bushels, at 70 cents, $175 00 



H. C. West. 



