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of August. My crop was injured ten or twelve bushels by lodging. 



One-half of the piece was a stony loam, the other sandy loam or 



river land. 



Charles Loring. 



Guilford, Dec. 25, 1857. 



Statement of Seth Lee on Beans. I raised the past season 

 seventeen and one-fourth bushels of good beans on one acre of land. 

 The soil is gravelly loam ; had been mowed for hay the past five 

 years. Plowed 25th of May six inches deep ; no barn-yard manure 

 applied ; planted 1st day of June with one bushel and two quarts of 

 yellow-eyed variety of beans; put one bushel of plaster mixed 

 with two bushels of ashes in the hills ; cultivated and hoed twice ; 

 harvested about the 12th of September by pulling up and stacking; 

 left to dry in the field some fifteen days. Whole expense about ^12. 



Seth Lee. 



Atkinson, Dec. 30, 1857. 



