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kins ; one-fourth acre was planted to ruta bpgas ; turnip ground was 

 manured with seven loads green cow manure only in the drill ; crop 

 one hundred and fifteen bushels. Last spring the whole, one and 

 one-fourth acres, was plowed, harrowed, and sowed with two bushels 

 of the bald spring wheat ; seed sowed the 8th of June ; harvested 

 in September ; crop thirty- three bushels of good plump wheat ; the 

 soil a gravelly loam. 



George A, Child. 

 Monson, December, 1857. 



Statement of Jacob Leeman on Corn. The character of the 

 soil upon which my corn grew, is a fine gravelly loam of a deep ^r 

 dark brown color. The state and cultivation of the land were thus : 

 One-half of the ground was manured highly in 1856, and the other 

 half was plowed in September, 1855, and ten loads cow manure put 

 on and harrowed in. The said ground was plowed and harrowed 

 thoroughly last spring and marked off in rows four feet apart, and 

 ten loads of hog manure, in which some hen manure was mixed, was 

 dropped in the hills three feet apart; planted the last days of May; 

 two bushels plaster per acre was used and three barrels of ashes'; 

 hoed three times; depth of plowing eight or nine inches; value of 

 manure used $17; the kind of seed was the large eight-rowed va- 

 riety; harvested in October; cut up at the roots and shocked; the 

 yield one hundred and fifty-two bushels of ears of corn, four bushels 

 of beans and two loads of pumpkins. 



Jacob Leeman. 



Abbot, December, 1857. 



Statement of Mr. Lorinrr on Barley. I have raised the past 

 season thirty-eight bushels of good barley on one acre of land ; it 

 was reduced mowing ground, cutting less than half a ton per acre. 

 The previous cultivation Avas as follows : I broke half an acre 

 in the fall of 1855, the other half in the spring of 1856 ; spread 

 and plowed in eight cords of green stable manure on that which I 

 broke in the spring ; the other part I harrowed in ; I then furrowed 

 and put six cords of old cow-yard dung and hcg manure in the hill, 

 and plantt'd corn. Last spring I plowed, and last of May sowed 

 three bushels of the two-rowed variety of barley ; harvested the last 



