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FARM ACCOUNTS. 



Actual Account of Potato Crop batsed at Cochtch- 

 EwiCK Fakm, No. Andover, Mass., ix 1894. 



1894. 



Dr. 



potato field, no. 1, 



Cr. 



Apr. 



May 

 May 



27th. To plowing 39-40 



of an acre, 5-2.95 



May 1st. To hm-rowing same, LOO 

 May 1st. To 45 loads of mamire, 



at 1.33 1-3, 60.00 



May 4th. To 1 ton bone and 



ashes, 15.00 



May4tli. To 2 ba^s fertilizer, 4.00 

 May 4th. To 17 bushels seed 



potatoes, 17.00 



4th and 5th. Labor in 



planting, 6.00 



11th. To harrowing, 



Thomas harrow, 1.00 



June 4tli. To cultivating and 



weeding, -J. 00 



June 6th and Vtli. To labor 



hand hoeing, 7.50 



June 18th and 19th. Torecul- 



tivating and hoeing, 10.00 

 June and Jul v. Paris Green 



and labor, 5.00 



Horse hoeing and 



weeding, 2.50 



Sept. 1st to 10th. To digging 



432 bushels at 8c., 34.56 



Sept. 10th. To interest on land, 6.0J 



Sept. 1st to 10th. By 400 bu. 



large Potatoes at 70c., 

 By 32 bu. small Potatoes at 



20c., 



,1280.00 

 6.40 

 used remaining in soil, .39.50 



By h manure and fertilizer 



Total, S325.90 



Cost, 174.51 



Profit on 1,56 Sq. rods, $151.39 



Rate of profit per acre, $155.19 



Yield per acre, 442.8 bushels. 



Average cost per bu.shel, 31 5-20c. 



Average profit per bushel, 35 l-20c. 



July. 



Total cost of crop, $174.51 



The above crop was raised on well drained mellow meadow 

 land, on which a crop of corn was groAvn in 1893. This field 

 shows a satisfactory profit, because all conditions were right. 

 In marked contrast to the above figures are those of another 

 field raised by us the same season on dry loam. This field 

 was planted on fertilizer, without any barnyard manure and 

 the yield was materially reduced by the dry weather in July. 

 This latter field yielded at the rate of 116 bushels per acre. 

 After paying all expenses for cultivation, this field returned 

 enough money to allow 1^ cents per bushel for digging 

 or i cent less per bushel than I paid to get the work done. 

 Resj)ectfully submitted, 



Geo. a. Rogers, 



Farm Supt. 



