250 NORTH AROOSTOOK SOCIETY. 



planted with corn last year; last spring was manured with barn 

 manure, plowed deep, and sowed in drills, with the rows about 

 eighteen inches apart, June 6th, 1856, came up rather thin, but 

 grew very large ; October 19th finished harvesting; had one 

 hundred and sixty bushels of large, handsome carrots." 



In another statement, he says : — The crop I present for pre- 

 mium is clover seed, raised on seven acres of land, a dry, 

 sandy loam ; the previous crop was oats ; lightly manured. I 

 had on seven acres, twenty hundred and twenty-four pounds 

 clover seed, which sold for fifteen cents per pound ; came to 

 $303.60; cost of cutting and" getting out, estimated at $20 per 

 acre, is $140 out of $303.60, leave $163.60 net profit; weight 

 of seed, sixty-one pounds per bushel. 



Joel Beau says : " The corn grew on new burnt land ; I har- 

 rowed three times before planting; planted on the 15th day of 

 May, five quarts of corn on one acre and five square rods of 

 land on the 10th of June; hoed it, and raised fifty-one bushels 

 that was fit to grind, and six of soft. 



The peas grew on land broken up in the fall of 1855 ; sowed 

 two bushels and raised twenty-three. 



The buckwheat grew on land broken up in the fall of 1855 ; I 

 put on five loads of manure to the acre, and harrowed it in ; 

 sowed one bushel and raised forty-one bushels and one peck. 



The rye grew on new burnt land; I sowed one and a half 

 bushels and raised twenty-one bushels from one acre." 



Cost of growing corn, 

 " " peas, 



« " buckwheat. 



rye (not stated, estimated at) 



Cost of seed, 

 Manure, 



26 bushels of corn, $1, 



23 " peas, $1.25, . 



41 " buckwheat, 50 cents, 



21 " rye, $1, 



Profit, . 



