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The crop of 18G3 was potatoes, manured ■with six cords of 

 compost — the soil being a dark heavy loam. 



It was ploughed eight inches deep once, for the wheat crop, 

 and harrowed at a cost of $4.00 — no manure being used. 



The seed (bearded wheat) was sown May first, at a cost of 

 $7.50 — and the crop was cradled the last week in August. 



Cost of harvesting, storing and threshing, $8.00. Amount 

 of straw, 2 tons. Amount of wheat, fifteen hundred pounds. 



ROOT CROPS. 



The season just closing has been a remarkable one in some 

 respects, as affecting Root Crops. 



The potatoe crop, for instance, was at one time considered 

 almost a failure. But the early crop sold for so large a price 

 as to make it, with but few exceptions, a remunerative crop. 

 And some fields of later ones, that were given up by the 

 owners as past hope, by reason of the severe drought, have, 

 at the close of the season, produced large crops. 



We learn, however, by Reports from the Agricultural De- 

 partment at Washington, that the entire crop in the United 

 States is somewhat smaller than last year. 



The onion crop has proved a success, both as to the quan- 

 tity grown and the price at which the crop has been sold. 

 Some fields were injured by the drought, but the ravages of 

 the maggot were not very marked. 



The carrot crop is very good, and they command a high- 

 er price than ever before, being now worth $20.00 per ton 

 in market. 



The cabbage crop, which was much injured in the earlier 



