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el with the loam left out. In the spring of 1884 it was in 

 grass and was top-dressed with barn manure, five cords to 

 the acre ; was ploughed after haying and seeded with bar- 

 ley ; the sod was backset in December, and oats sown on 

 the furrows in the spring of 1885. After the oat fodder 

 was harvested, five cords of barn manure to the acre was 

 ploughed in, and barley sown for a fall crop. . In the 

 spring of 1886, five cords of manure to the acre was 

 ploughed in about six inches deep ; the land was well har- 

 rowed and marked out with a Chandler horse hoe, rows 

 three feet apart, furrows about three inches deep. In the 

 latter part of April one-half acre was planted with Early 

 Sunrise potato seed, whole, and about the size of hen's 

 eggs, dropped two feet apart in the row and covered with 

 a hand hoe, one hoe full of soil making a little mound over 

 each potato ; the base of the mound was on a level with 

 the under side of the potato, and about two inches of soil 

 over the seed ; when the potatoes were about coming up, 

 Stockbridge potato fertilizer was sifted over the mounds, 

 about an ounce to each, or at the rate of 400 lbs. to the 

 acre. Every fifth row not fertilized when the leading 

 sprouts were one or two inches high, sprouts, mounds and 

 fertilizer were covered by making a full ridge with the 

 horse hoe, high enough to put about five inches of soil on 

 the seed ; when the plants were twelve or fifteen inches 

 high, a narrow cultivator was run between the rows, the 

 horse hoe used to kill the weeds on the sides of the ridges, 

 and the hand hoe on the top of the ridges between the 

 plants. 



The bugs were checked in their work by a weak solution 

 of Paris green, applied with the same cart, cask, force 

 pump and hose used for spraying apple trees. 



The potatoes were harvested about the middle of July, 

 the land was ploughed, and one bushel of barley sown on 



