NORTH FRANKLIN SOCIETY. £97 



I had thirteen thousand eight hundred bundles of wheat ; threshed 

 out two thousand bundles which measured up sixty-three bushels of 

 good wheat ; so it will overrun what I have stated, or certainly hold 

 out good thirty bushels to the thousand ; and so there would be four 

 hundred and fourteen bushels. This is as near and as correct as I 

 can state. 



I cannot have all my wheat threshed till winter, as my threshing 

 machine is gone from home and will not return till first of January." 



G. Voter, 2d. 

 Madrid, November 25, 1857. 



Statement of S. Whitney on Ruta Bag-as. 



" I raised one hundred and twenty-five bushels of ruta baga 

 turnips on one quarter of an acre of land ; said land was broken up 

 and sown with wheat in 1856, the stubble being plowed under in 

 the fall ; plowed again in May, 1857, and pulverized well with the 

 harrow ; then furrowed with a plow in rows two and a half or three 

 feet apart ; then manured with well rotted manure from the yard 

 the whole length of the row, which being covered, the seed was sown 

 thereon in drills, and covered, by drawing a light brush lengthwise; 

 planted the 19th or 20th of June ; used horse cultivator between 

 rows, and hoed once. Soil stony and moist. 



Sewall Whitney. 

 Freeman, December 1, 1857. 



Statement of R. W. Libby on Compost. 



"Compost manure No. 1, was prepared as follows, viz: by mix- 

 ing swamp muck, yard manure and leached ashes together ; amount, 

 ten cords ; had about two cords of leached ashes dropped in a pile — 

 then hauled my muck, about five cords, and manure, about three 

 cords, and mixed with my ashes ; this was done in June ; and in 

 September I had it all spaded over, and it was well pulverized and 

 rotten ; cost about ,f 10, or $1 per cord. 



Compost heap No. 2, was prepared as follows : I hauled to my 

 hog-yard occasionally through the summer, seed hay, straw and 

 swamp muck, and poured on our soap suds and the suds and slops 

 from the sink, all passed to the yard by a gutter, which kept it 

 moist; and this compost heap was handled over quite frequently 



