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gave the land a good harrowing, furrowed the land and 

 sprinkled in the furrows at the rate of about 900 lbs. of 

 Stockbridge's potato manure per acre. I started with the 

 intention of seeing how cheap I could raise potatoes. We 

 dropped them by hand about 12 inches apart, using large 

 seeds cut so as to leave about two eyes in a piece and one 

 piece in a place. We covered them with a horse-hoe and 

 did no hand labor on them afterwards, except one man 

 one half day weeding out the hills. There were two acres 

 in the whole. I used for seeds, Holton Rose, Beauty of 

 Hebron and New Queen which came from Maine. Holton 

 Rose and New Queen were the best. The New Queen 

 were on the half acre which I enter, it taking about 

 twelve hills to a fill a bushel. They were very large with 

 but very [ew small ones. The rows were three feet and a 

 half apart, marked with a marker. I tried an experiment 

 with the Hebron to plant two rows of small seed, the re- 

 sult was I got about half the quantity per row. I also 

 tried two rows with Bradley's Fertilizer. They did not do 

 nearly as well as with the Stockbridge. 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT. JDv. 



Ploughing one half acre of land, |2 50 



Harrowing, 1 50 



Marking and opening furrows, 75 



450 lbs. of Stockbridge potato manure, 8 40 



Paris green, 60 



Applying the same, 2 00 



Two lbs. of seed potatoes, 5 00 



Dropping and covering, 1 50 



3 cords of manure at 85.00, 15 00 



Applying the same, 75 



Cultivating and hilling seven times, 3 50 



Digging and storing, 15 00 



Use of land, 3 00 



$59 50 



