"Then you apply about twenty tons of seaweed to the acre for corn?"

"Yes, but some use less and some more; probably that's about an
average. Hauling seaweed's a big job and a bad job. We have to start
from home long before daylight so as to get there and get the weed
while the tide is out, and then we get back with our load about two
o'clock in the afternoon; and, by the time we eat and feed the team,
and get the load to the field and spread, there isn't much time left
that day, especially when you've got to pile out of bed about two
o'clock the next morning and hike off for another load."

"Then you use some fertilizer in addition to the seaweed? May I ask
how much fertilizer you apply to the acre and about how much it
costs per ton?"

"Where we spread seaweed for corn, we add about four hundred and
fifty pounds per acre of fertilizer that costs me $26 a ton, but I
have the agency and get it some cheaper than most have to pay. Then
for potatoes we apply about 1500 pounds of a special potato
fertilizer that costs me $34 a ton."

"The fertilizer costs you about $6 an acre for the corn crop and $25
for potatoes," said Percy; "and then you have the cost of the
seaweed. I should think you would need to count about $25 or $30 an
acre for the expense of hauling seaweed."

"Yes, all of that if we had to pay for the work, but of course we
can haul seaweed more or less when the farm work isn't crowding, and
we don't count so much on the expense. It doesn't take the cash,