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John Brooks, Jr/s Statement. 



The half acre upon which I raised my potatoes is wet, 

 with a clay sub-soil. The crop in '55 and '56 was grass, 

 without manure. The ground was plowed in the fall of '56 

 six inches deep, and cross plowed in the spring of this year 

 eight inches deep. Two and one-fifth cords of barn yard 

 manure were spread before the first plowing. The land was 

 furrowed out, and four hundred and fifty pounds of plaster 

 put in the hill. It was planted on the 9th and 10th of June, 

 in hills three feet by two and a half, with from three to five 

 potatoes in a hill. The variety was the Davis seedling, of 

 which six and one quarter bushels were used. A plow was 

 run between the rows once, and the crop dug October 6th 

 and 7th. 



Cost of preparing the land and planting, $5,25 



" seed, 3,12 



" manure, 10,95 



" cultivation and harvesting, * 3,37 



Product, 140 bushels of potatoes. 



John Brooks, Jr/s Statement. 



The eighth of an acre upon which I raised my English 

 turnips is a wet, stiff soil, with a clay sub-soil. In 1855 the 

 crop was corn, with two loads of compost, (one-third meadow 

 muck and two-thirds cow manure,) and twelve pounds of 

 guano. In 1S56 the crop was English turnips, with the 

 same manure, substituting super-phosphate of lime for the 

 guano. In 1857, it was manured the same as in '56, and 

 the compost plowed in about the middle of June, 10 inches 

 deep. On the 27th July I plowed in the super-phosphate, 

 and used a cultivator to level the ground. One-eighth of a 



