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large horses, and four men one-half day ploughed it, leav- 

 ing the stone on top of the ground; next year planted 

 this piece to potatoes, had them dug in the fall with a 

 pickaxe, going the depth of the pick all over the ground 

 and throwing out all small stones with the potatoes ; re- 

 sult, good crop of potatoes but better one of stones. Last 

 year I went through about the same programme on a lit- 

 tle larger piece, took the Essex County premium for the 

 best crop of potatoes in the county; this year I have some 

 splendid crops on the whole of the land. After the expe- 

 rience I have had, this is about the way I can clear land 

 now of stumps per acre. 



To dynamite. 75 lbs. at 26 cents, 119 50 



Caps and fuse, 3 00 



Labor, 4 days, 8 00 



$30 50 



The stone of course where they are not worth digging 



would swell this amount accordingly; the following is 



what it has cost me to clear a little more than an acre. 



To labor on first fourth of an acre, $55 00 



" the other three-fourths, dynamite 50 lbs., 13 00 



" labor other than ploughing, 3 days, 6 00 



" caps and fuse, 2 00 



" ploughing and getting stone top of ground, 20 00 



$96 00 



According to this and the above accounts my expe- 

 rience has been worth $65.50 to me. 



The manure I have used on this land has been mostly 

 night manure and muck as it being new land, I reckoned 

 that there would be potash enough in the land, so I have 

 applied mostly nitrogeneous manures. It has cost me less 

 than nothing, but to place it on a fair basis with the crops 

 I will call it $5.00 per cord; it has consisted of a few 

 cords horse (shaving) manure, wool waste with some lime 



