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have been larger. "Wet seasons have produced the largest 

 crops. 



These potatoes were not planted with a view to offer the crop 

 for premium, otherwise I should have planted them a little 

 nearer together. Some of the rows actually measured five by six 

 fjet apart, and would average more than three by four feet apart. 

 Yet the vines nearly met. 



My experience has taught me that nothing is gained by crowding 

 a crop ; it causes a greater draft upon the land and additional ex- 

 pense in cultivating. 



When the muck is deep no underdraining is needed. Ditches at 

 the distance of six or eight rods will take all the surplus water. 



The cost of cultivating and harvesting on these lands,is far less 

 than upon the upland. Though racketts must be used on the 

 horse's feet, yet few, if any, would refuse to work in them, and 

 therefore but little trouble is experienced from this source. 



The planting was done in one day, and the second time hoeing 

 in one day, by myself; and the first time hoeing was only about a 

 good day's work, making three in all. With the aid of two boys 

 of the age of fourteen years, I gathered, assorted and put in the 

 cellar, fifty bushels in a day of nine hours. 



I do not claim that this land is better than hundreds of acres in 

 our county, now producing nothing but brakes and bushes, which 

 would furnish food for vegetables of various kinds, and particularly 

 the potato, long after the Western Prairies have failed, by draw- 

 ing from them more than is returned, while these bogs of ten feet 

 deep — the accumulation of ages— must out-last the richest soil on 

 the globe. 



MILK. 



The Committee on Milk report : 



They have received one statement of the product of milk for 

 nine months^ trom D. G. Tood of Rowley. This statement is ap-' 

 pended to the report. 



The Committee award to Mr. Todd the first premium, SlO. 



GEO. B. LORING, for the Committee. 



