YORK COUNTY SOCIETY. 145 



12 days hoeing, 



8 days harvesting corn, 



6 days harvesting beans, 



2 men and pair oxen one day, harvesting pumpkins, 



8 days cutting, binding and storing stalks, 

 Pair oxen one day, 

 62 loads manure, (deduct half for next crop,) 



This may certify that we, the subscribers, have assisted in the 

 introduction, harvesting, and measuring of the crops described in the 

 foregoing statement, and it is true to the best of our knowledge and 

 belief 



Joseph G. Butters, , 

 Henry M. Frost. 

 Eliot, Nov. 13, 185T. 



This may certify, that I have measured the lot of lan^ that is 

 within described, and the statement is true to the best of my, knowl- 

 edge and belief 



J. D. Frost. 



Eliot, Nov. 13, 1857. 



'Statement of Mr. Beach. 



To the Committee of the York Cowity Agricultural Society on 

 Grain, Roots and Vegetables : 



The field of corn from which the sample submitted for inspection 

 was- taken, consists of about three acres. It was that kind of land 

 known as "pine plains," or "barren," as many call it. A crop of 

 winter rye had been harvested for the three years preceding the 

 present one, from the field, and this was the only crop taken from 

 the soil since it was cleared. I have spread some manure, and 

 ploughed it in, each of the years I sowed the field to rye ; but this 

 year I spread no manure, but applied a quantity in the hill from my 

 hog yard. Planted between the 15th and 20th of May, hills about 

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