SOUTH KENNEBEC SOCIETY. 



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Dr. Cr. 



By 880 bu. at 25 cts., $220 00 



00 



Deduct cost, 

 Leaves, 



58 



To plowing and har- 

 rowing, 



Manure (225 lbs. guano, 



4 bushels plaster, and ^e^^^^' ^^^^ ^^ 



200 lbs. sup. lime,) 



Seed, 1 lb.. 



Labor applying manure 

 and sowing seed, 



Hoeing, 



Harvesting, 



I have estimated the whole crop at twenty-five cents per 

 bushel, what I think them worth for feed, though I have sold a 

 part for thirty-three and one-third to forty cents. 



The piece of land taken for this crop is mostly a low clay 

 soil, resting, at the depth of ten inches, on an impervious clay 

 subsoil, on one side rising to a higher yellow, sandy loam, which 

 embraces one-fourth to one-third the piece, and all originally 

 very stony ; many large stones have been taken out for build- 

 ing purposes. It had been mowed for a series of years, some 

 of it more than twenty, without plowing or dressing. 



After making clean work in removing stones, I dug and put 

 down a stone drain through the lowest part of the piece, with 

 several branches from points most liable to be overcharged 

 with water. (This is the beginning of what I intend shall ter- 

 minate in thorough draining.) Most of the piece was so low 

 and wet as to produce an inferior quality of hay, and be denom- 

 inated " swale " or '^ swail," I suppose, for want of a better 

 terra, not being exactly "bog." 



It was broken up about the middle of June, as deep as the 

 plow I used would turn, which was not more than ten inches 

 where there was no obstruction. It was harrowed as fine and 

 level as the character of the surface would admit, and marked 

 for the rows, three feet apart, with a chain drawn by hand. 

 Into the furrow made by the chain, the manure (the guano and 

 plaster mixed) was sown by hand from a basket carried between 

 two men, each sowing a row, and one sowing the seed while the 



