$75 00 Expenses.--Preparing land for the crop $5 00 Planting and seed 1 50 Cultivating 5 00 Hoeing 3 00 Cutting up the corn 1 50 Husking and drawing 10 00 Drawing in the stalks 3 00 Shelling, etc. 6 00 ----- $35 00 ------ Profit per acre $40 00 Take another case, which actually occurred in this neighborhood. The Judge is a good farmer, and particularly successful in raising potatoes and selling them at a good price to hotels and private families. He cultivates very thoroughly, plants in hills, and puts a handful of ashes, plaster, and hen-manure, on the hill. In 1873, his crop of Peachblows was at the rate of 208 bushels per acre. Of these, 200 bushels were sold at 60 cents per bushel. There were 8 bushels of small potatoes, worth say 12½ cents per bushel, to feed out to stock. Mr. Sloe, who lives on an adjoining farm, had three acres of Peachblow potatoes the same year. The yield was 100 bushels per acre--of which 25 bushels were not large enough for market, he got 50 cents per bushel for the others. The account of the two crops stands as follows: -----------------------------------------+----------+--------- Expenses Per Acre: | Mr. Sloe | Judge. -----------------------------------------+----------+--------- Plowing, harrowing, rolling, marking, | | planting and covering | $ 8 00 | $ 8 00 Seed | 5 00 | 5 00 Hoeing, cultivating, etc. | 7 00 | 10 00 Digging | 10 00 | 10 00 +----------+--------- | 30 00 | 33 00 _Receipts Per Acre_: | | 75 bushels, @ 50c | 37 50 | 25 ” @ 12½c | 3 12 | +----------+--------- | 40 62 | 200 bushels, @ 60c | | 120 00 8 ” @ 12½c | | 1 00 | +--------- | | 121 00 +----------+--------- Profit per acre | $10 62 | $98 00 -----------------------------------------+----------+---------