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THE BUSINESS OF DAIRYING 



BALANCE SHEET FOR ONE ACRE OF LAND 



{Continued) 



PLOT 16 



Record for tlie Years 1900, 1901 



Dr. 



Date 



Manures, Fertilizers, Labor, and Seed 



May to 

 Sept. 



May 85 



to 

 May 28 

 June 19 

 Sept. 22 



Feb. 

 April 



July 



April 3 

 9 



July 9-10 

 Sept. 11 



1900 

 To Fertilizer— 

 100 lbs. muriate of potash. 



100 lbs acid phosphate 



50 lbs. ground bone 



50 lbs. nitrate of soda 



50 lbs. dried blood 



To Labor and Seed- 

 Plowing and fitting land, 9 hours 



6 qts. Stowell's evergreen corn 



Planting and sowing fert 



Cultivating, 2 hours 



Plowing, etc., 9 hours $2 70 



Sowing fert. and grass seed.. 30 



15 lbs. Mammouth red clover. 

 Total 



1901. 

 To Fertilizer— 



7.9 tons manure 



100 lbs. muriate potash $2 00 



50 lbs. bone . . . i 55 



60 lbs. ground bone 



To Labor and Seed- 

 Plowing, harvesting, drilling, 9 hrs, 



2 bu. oats $0 64 



V/a bu. eowpeas 1 29 



Harvesting and rolling, 13 hrs.. $3 90 

 1.15 lbs. mur. potash 2 30 



16 qts. kafflr corn $0 50 



32 qts. eowpeas 2 50 



Preparing ground, 11 hours. 

 7 lbs. Essex rape 



Total 



Total, 5 years. 



Coat 



$2 10 

 60 



1 03 



85 



2 70 

 40 

 75 



3 00 

 1 80 



$14 46 



$11 85 



2 55 

 33 



2 70 

 1 93 

 6 20 



3 00 



4 00 



$32 56 



$89 65 



Amount Applied 



Nitro- 

 gen 



Lbs. 



1.72 

 7.93 

 7.16 



16.81 



50.56 



1.72 

 2.06 



156 90 



PhOB- 



phoric 

 Acid 



Lbs. 



20.33 

 12.27 



33.22 



52.14 



12.27 

 14.72 



79.13 



844.25 



Potash 



Lbs. 

 55.16 



55.16 



80.58 

 55.16 



199.17 



440.05 



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