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the} r would go down ; I got them in twice. Let the land 

 lay over Winter just as I ploughed. 



In the Spring of 1886 I raked it over by hand, cost $6 ; 

 I then spread Dole Fertilizer, one-half ton, $17.50 ; I 

 sowed three-fourths of it with onions, $3 ; the rest sowed 

 with beets, parsnips, turnips, sugar beets, mangold wurt- 

 zels, carrots and celery — all a failure. I then set out with 

 cabbages, seed cost 15 cents ; hoed once, 75 cents ; trans- 

 planting, $6; harvested one-half acre, 19,562 pounds. 



Soil, muck and peat. 



RECAPITULATION FOR ONE ACRE. 



1883. — Cost cutting out stumps, etc., $40.00 



Digging, 20.00 



CD O' 



Seed potatoes, 3.60 



Planting and hoeing, 9.00 



Harvesting, 12.00 



$84.60 

 Crop — 148 bush, salable potatoes, 40 bush, small potatoes. 



1884.— Cost digging over, etc., $11.00 



Seed potatoes, 2.40 



Planting, 6.00 



Hoed once, 7.50 



$26.90 

 C r op — 145 bush, large potatoes, 45 bush, small potatoes. 



1885.— Cost digging over, $5.00 



3.50 



Seed potatoes, 

 Holing, 

 Hoeing, 

 Harvesting, 



3.00 



8.00 

 15.00 



$34.50 

 Crop — 147 bush, large potatoes, 38 bush, small potatoes. 



