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ing the removal of the rye that was sowed the Fall previ- 

 ous. Six cords of stable manure per acre was applied for 

 corn, and eight cords per acre on the portions planted to 

 beets and cabbages. 



The soil is a dark loam with gravelly sub-soil. It was 

 ploughed about eight inches in depth in the Fall of 1885, 

 and eight cords of manure per acre applied during the 

 Winter and early Spring, while the frost was in the 

 ground, and early in April cross-ploughed from four to 

 five inches deep, and planted to early Sunrise and Early 

 Essex potatoes, in sections of four rows furrowed a uniform 

 width of three feet, except leaving a space of four feet 

 between each four furrows, to be utilized for planting the 

 squash later, which brought the squash rows a uniform 

 width of thirteen feet apart. Used 400 pounds per acre 

 of Ames fertilizer in the drill for potatoes, which yielded 

 a crop of (70) seventy barrels per acre, which were dug 

 and put upon the market from the 5th to the 15th of July, 

 at an average price of $2.75 per barrel. 



The squashes were planted the 17th day of June by the 

 use of about two cords per acre of a compost of barn ma- 

 nure, night soil and meadow mud, which had received 

 several "turnings," and the day before using a few barrels 

 of ashes and also a few of air-slacked lime (two barrels 

 of each to the cord of the original compost) were thor- 

 oughly mixed through the heap as stated. The squashes 

 were planted June 17th, having the appearance of being 

 planted in drill rather than in hill, the compost being put 

 in hills about five feet apart, and with the hoe levelled 

 along the furrow, leaving a space of only about two feet 

 between the ends of the hills ; the seed was pricked into 

 the hills (in a direct line) about six inches apart. Were 

 cultivated once and hoed once — two hours' work cultivat- 

 ing for one man and horse, and one day's work for one 



