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He states that he planted the present year fifteen acres of po- 

 tatoes, principally Mercer j the average yield was about 125- 

 bushels to the acre ; the first potatoes were sent to market on 

 the 20th June, and brought $2.25 per basket ; at that time they 

 were not full grown, but the extra price more than compensated 

 for the loss in size. From this time potatoes were sent to market 

 almost daily until the bulk of the crop was sold. The entire 

 crop averaged about one dollar per bushel. The early potatoe 

 ground was cleared of the vines, weeds, and other rubbish and 

 prepared for a second crop, and there is now growing on the 

 same field the Rutabaga and Red top turnip, which are in a flour- 

 ishing condition, and he estimates that the receipt of the second 

 crop will pay all the expense of cultivating the first. We next 

 visited his cornfield, containing about sixteen acres, and walked 

 through it in various directions and found, on an average, about 

 four stalks to the hill ; the ground was well cultivated— very 

 clean and entirely free from weeds. The white flint corn was 

 planted three feet and-a-half distant each way, and the yellow 

 corn three feet; the ears were large and well filled. The corn 

 was planted from the 5th to 20th May, manured in the hill with 

 good barn yard manure and leached ashes mixed. We estimated 

 the yield of the whole crop from fifty-five to sixty bushels the 

 acre. 



Seven acres of this farm are devoted to the culture of sugar 

 beets, carrots, parsnips and turnips for cattle, all of which took 

 remarkably well and seemed not to have suffered much from the 

 drought. The hay crop was very large. Kings county has long 

 been celebrated for the superior excellence of its hay, and judg- 

 ing from the appearance of the meadows, and the hay in the 

 barns, we are confident that none could excel it in point of quan- 

 tity and quality. Mr. K. estimates his entire crop will average 

 two tons and-a-half to the acre. 



The crop of wheat was five acres, sowed upon ground from 

 which a potatoe crop had been taken the last season, and manured 

 thoroughly with a compost of barn-yard manure, decayed drift 

 and leached ashes. The seed was the white Bergen wheat, en- 

 tirely unmixed. The product was thirty-two bushels to the acre, 



