100 



Fertilizer, 300 lbs., 5.00 



Six bu. small potatoes, planted whole, 40 cts., 2.40 



Dropping and covering, with horse, 1.00 



Brush harrowing twice, 1.00 



Cultivating and horse-hoeing, 1.50 



1-2 day's work, 1 man, .75 



Digging, 4 cts. bu., 8.16 



Interest and taxes on land, 6.00 



$41.56 



Or. 



1-2 manure used, $11.00 



204 bu. potatoes, 50 cts. per bu., 102.00 



$113.00 

 41.56 



Balance, $71.44 



I herby certify that I measured 1-2 acre of land planted 

 to potatoes for John H. George, to be entered for pre- 

 mium with the Essex Agricultural Society. 



Daniel H. Rowell. 

 Methuen, Oct., 1886. 



Note. — Product per acre, 408 bu. potatoes, $204.00 



Cost of production, per acre, less half manure, G1.12 



Balance, per acre, $142.88 



STATEMENT OF STEPHEN A. JAQUES OF WEST NEWBURY. 

 POTATO CROP. 



The crop of 1885 was potatoes, sixty bushels ; no ma- 

 nure was used. The crop of 1886 was potatoes ; Dole fer- 

 tilizer, two hundred pounds to the acre, was used ; soil is 

 muck and peat. 



