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Expenses of cultivating an acre of Potatoes. 



Ploughing, $2 ; seed, 20 bs., $5 ; planting, $3, . $10 00 



Ten loads manure in the liill, $5 ; getting out manure, $3, 8 00 



Hoeing twice, $5 ; digging, one-tenth to the crop, $6 25, II 25 



Interest on land, at $40, . . . . 2 40 



Product. 

 Two hundred and fifty bs., at 25 cts., 



Profits on the crop, 



Expenses of an acre of Ruta Baga. 

 Ploughing, $1 50 ; harrowing and ridging, $1, 

 Manure, 40 loads, — 20 charged to this crop, 

 Sowing, 50 cts.; seed, 50 cts.; thinning and hoeing, $i 

 Two next hoeings, $6 ; gathering, $S, . 

 Rent of land, ..... 



$35 90 

 Seven hundred bs. ruta baga, at 20 cts., . . $140 00 



Profits on crop, . . . . $104 10 



The value credited to the crop in this case will be regarded as high ; 

 but I give the estimate of ihe farmers themselves, who report their 

 cultivation. 



Lenox. — Expenses of an acre of Indian Corn. 



Ploughing green-sward, $2 , seed, 25 cts.. 

 Twenty-five loads of manure, half to corn. 

 Getting out manure, $3 124 ; dragging, $1 ; planting, $2 

 First hoeing, $3 50 ; second do, $2 50 ; topping stalks, 



$1, 



Husking and gathering, $3 ; getting in butts, $1, 

 Interest on land, at $40, .... 



$28 02^ 



