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ter, put in each hole two handfuls of leather shavings, one bushel 

 manure, same as above, a liltle soil placed in the vine, covered the 

 roots with soil, put on another half bushel of manure, and fitted up 

 with soil, watered freely; early in spring planted potatoes in drills, 

 between vines, 4 feet apart, (nutmeg potatoes,) potatoes fit for table 

 June 1st, as new potatoes, but not full grown; 20th June put on 

 cabbage plants between rows of potatoes, one plant every 2 feet, be- 

 ing equal to 5445 cabbages to the acre, they have grown well ; shall 

 dig the potatoes to-morrow, (July 21st,) and shall plant double rows 

 of white globe turnips between the cabbage rows in place of the 

 potatoes. Expect the crops to be, in addition to the grape vines, 

 (to the acre) : 300 bushels potatoes, 5000 cabbages, 600 bushels 

 turnips. 



I have neglected to say, that before planting the potatoes, the sur- 

 face plow set at 17 inches, was run three times through the lot, in 

 addition to the original plowing, and then followed twice by a 

 deep cultivator. This course I was compelled to adopt for the pur- 

 pose of exposing and removing all the stone, as no opportunity 

 would be conveniently offered for doing so, a^ter putting up trellises 

 for the vines. 



I am selling, or rather engaging the potatoes, deliverable in the 

 winter or spring, at $2 per bushel, for seed. They were as dry and 

 sound when planted this spring, as when dug last fall; mealy when 

 new as well as when old, never have been diseased, and yield well. 

 The nutmeg potatoe has now been cultivated six years, without dis- 

 ease of any kind. 



The crown of the hill behind the vineyard was a sorry spot last 

 fall, being the summit of a hill and the ground declining in every 

 direction, the soil was completely washed off. The clay stratum 

 here is but slight and mostly washed away, exposing the kellis or 

 sub-soil, stony to a most disheartening extent. My agricultural friends 

 and neighbors advised me not to try to cultivate it, but if I did, cer- 

 tainly not to plow as deep as in other parts of the farm. I cov- 

 ered it with decomposed muck, 62 horse loads to the acre, and with 

 two yoke of oxen to each plough, (surface and subsoil.) went as 

 near Pekin as possible; then run the surface plow five times, and 

 the cultivator twice before planting; last fall put out currants, and 

 this spring between the rows of currants, say 3000 cauliflower and 

 Brocoli plants raised from seed put in hot beds in March. All an- 

 ticipated an entire failure with this crop, but the result has proved 



